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Russia to Quit International Space Station "After 2024"
Published on 28 Jul 2022
- Russia has decided to quit the International Space Station after 2024.
- The announcement comes as tensions rage between the Kremlin and the West over Moscow's military intervention in Ukraine and several rounds of unprecedented sanctions against Russia.
- Russia and the United States have worked side by side on the ISS, which has been in orbit since 1998.
- The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest modular space station currently in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada).
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