- Russia is ready to start building its own space station with the aim of launching it into orbit by 2030.
- Russia is considering withdrawing from the International Space Station programme.
- After the first successful mission of U.S. company Space X, Russia lost its monopoly for manned flights to the ISS last year.
International Space Station
- It is launched in 1998.
- It involves Russia, the United States, Canada, Japan, and the European Space Agency.
- ISS is a modular space station (habitable artificial satellite) in low Earth orbit.
- The ISS serves as space environment research laboratory in which scientific experiments are conducted in astrobiology, astronomy, meteorology, physics, and other fields.
- The ISS circles the Earth in roughly 93 minutes, completing 15.5 orbits per day.
