{"id":14908,"date":"2021-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/22-04-2021\/russia-to-launch-its-own-space-station-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2021-04-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T00:00:00","slug":"russia-to-launch-its-own-space-station-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/22-04-2021\/russia-to-launch-its-own-space-station-in-2025","title":{"rendered":"Russia to Launch Its Own Space Station in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\"><strong><u>In News<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">Russia&#8217;s space agency hoped to launch its <strong>own orbital station in 2025<\/strong> .<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">Russia recently celebrated its proud history in space, marking the<strong> 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin<\/strong> for becoming the first human to go into orbit.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\"><strong><u>Probable Reasons for Announcement <\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">The announcement came with <strong>tensions soaring with the West.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\"><strong>Relations between Russia and the US<\/strong> and several European countries have also deteriorated .<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">Russia had a <strong>monopoly on manned space flight<\/strong> but last year Nasa astronauts were taken to the ISS via a capsule belonging to Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">Russia&#8217;s agreement with international partners runs out in 2024.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\"><strong><u>International Space Station (ISS)<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">The <strong>International Space Station (ISS)<\/strong> is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in<strong> Low Earth Orbit (<\/strong>approximately 250 miles above Earth).<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cfstatic.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/file_library\/mix_content\/400976050832962240_image.png\" style=\"height:193px; width:289px\" \/><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\"><strong>Launch<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">The first piece of the International Space Station was<strong> launched in 1998,<\/strong> since then it is evolving. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">NASA and its partners around the world finished the space station in 2011.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">The ISS is one of the most ambitious international collaborations in human history.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\"><strong>Nations involved<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">The ISS programme is a joint project between five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada).<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">The <strong>ownership and use of the space station<\/strong> is established by intergovernmental treaties and agreements. <\/span><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">The station is divided into two sections, the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) and the United States Orbital Segment (USOS), which is shared by many nations.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">ISS is the<strong> ninth space station<\/strong> to be inhabited by crews, following the Soviet and later Russian Salyut, Almaz, and Mir stations as well as Skylab from the US.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\"><strong><u>Indian Space Station<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">Recently, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced its plan to set up India\u2019s own space station after successfully launching its <strong>first manned mission ( <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/website\/blog\/details\/326\"><strong><span style=\"color:#1155cc\">Gaganyaan mission<\/span><\/strong><\/a><strong>)<\/strong> by December 2021.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">It will weigh around 20 tonnes and house astronauts for about 15 to 20 days in a <strong>400km low earth orbit.<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">A <strong>low Earth orbit (LEO)<\/strong> is an orbit around Earth with an altitude above Earth&#8217;s surface from 160 kms to 2,000 kilometers. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\"><strong><u>Significance of Space Stations<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">They are useful for <strong>collecting meaningful scientific data<\/strong>, especially for biological experiments.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">They help in doing a lot of <strong>scientific studies<\/strong> on the various aspects of the space.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">Space stations are used to study the effects of<strong> long-term space flight on the human body.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/russia-says-it-will-launch-own-space-station-in-2025\/article34370209.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc\">Source :TH<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In News Russia&#8217;s space agency hoped to launch its own orbital station in 2025 . Russia recently celebrated its proud history in space, marking the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin for becoming the first human to go into orbit. Probable Reasons for Announcement The announcement came with tensions soaring with the West. 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