The AI-powered space station is on its way. As tensions rise between Russia and several Western countries on the ground in the space and the ISS (International Space Station) cracks, Russian experts criticize the age of the ISS and herald an avalanche of failures for the next few years, so Dimitry rogozin who is head of the Russian space agency (Roscosmos) has announced that he has started work on his own space station.
The new Russian space station will operate largely autonomously, using artificial intelligence (AI) and will include extravehicular robots to enhance current instruments and capabilities aboard the ISS, aiming to demonstrate the highest level of intelligence. .
ROSS INTERIM DESIGN
The ROSS (Russian Orbital Service Station) would be a new type of modular station that together with the nuclear tug “Zeus”, would serve as a prototype to develop systems for future long-term interplanetary space flights. Among the already known details of this construction, Roscosmos itself indicated that it will initially include four research modules.
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The construction of the new Russian space station is in charge of the space corporation RKK “Energiya” and will be carried out in two stages.
The first stage will take place between 2025 and 2026, and in this period the station will be built with basic modules, nodal and lock, and a total interior of 136 cubic meters. Two astronauts can live and work on the platform.
During the second phase, scheduled for 2026-2028, the station will be expanded with four more modules (maintenance platform, a production module, a commercial one and a storage module), while the volume of the interior will increase to 464 cubic meters, where A maximum of four cosmonauts can stay.
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This new station will orbit the Earth every two days and will be designed as a platform for spacecraft, the preliminary version of which is already being worked on and funding is expected to begin in January 2022. In addition, the first module, which will be scientific and energy, is ready for launch in 2025.
Created with the use of new technologies, ROSS it should become an evolutionary step in the development of a program for the study and development of the Moon, flights to Mars and the implementation of innovative scientific and technical programs in space.
Russia recently celebrated its proud history in space, marking the 60th anniversary of Yuri gagarin who became the first human to enter orbit. For years, Russia had a monopoly on manned spaceflight, but last year NASA astronauts were flown to the ISS via a capsule belonging to Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
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