Space station! A strange world above space Many of us have no clear idea about the space station even though we have heard or read about this object in the newspaper or on television news. But a talk may have come to many people's ears recently. Due to the war between Russia and Ukraine, the distance between Russia and the rest of the partner countries of the space station, especially America, has been created.
Russia is already thinking of withdrawing from this space station project and building its own separate space station. So the future of the current space station is in doubt. The fate of the largest man-made structure outside the world. Different countries of the world send spacecraft or spacecraft into space for research, research or any other special purpose. They return to the earth after completing certain tasks. The space station is a huge spaceship located two hundred and fifty miles above the earth. It revolves around the earth about sixteen times a day in a fixed orbit. The main purpose of this station is to further accelerate space research. Future human expeditions in space, microgravity, survival of organisms in space etc. are researched here. And this space research centre is the International Space Station or International Space Station in short. ISS.
Colossal five space research organizations from sixteen countries in the world jointly developed this integrated project. These five organizations are the Russian Space Agency of Russia, NASA of the United States, Japan's space exploration agency, the European Space Agency of the European Union and Canada's Canadian Space Agency. Space scientists from different countries have been working on the ISS for two thousand years. Most of them are American and Russian scientists. For the past ten years, Russian space capsules have been used as the only means of transporting scientists and logistics to the station. In addition, NASA relies on Russia to maintain the position and direction of the ISS in space. It is proved that even if they care about each other in the world, at least in space, the superpowers, especially Russia and America, are highly dependent on each other. Come back to earth from space on February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin's order in the early morning, the Russian army began to attack Ukraine. The United States and its allies announced the imposition of sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine issue. As a countermeasure, if the United States and Western allies do not lift the recent embargo imposed on Russia, Russia announced the cessation of cooperation with countries participating in the International Space Station project. Now if Russia brings back their astronauts and leaves their space crap systems unused. They may or may not have any harm. But as a result, there is no doubt that the life and research of astronauts in other countries will have a negative impact. Devendra Ruby Singh, head of the Russian space research agency, has announced the date of Russia's official severing of ties with the ISS project very soon. He also warned that the space station could crash into the earth without Russia's involvement. If Russia stops cooperation, what is the future of the International Space Station?
There was a time when the space station was a science fiction story but it became a reality in the very last part of the 20th century. When discussing the International Space Station, the person who comes up first is former US President Ronald Reagan. On January 25, 1984, he ordered NASA to build a space station within ten years with the cooperation and partnership of various countries. Seven astronauts died in the accident of America's space shuttle challenge in 1986. About seventeen years after this accident, the space shuttle of NASA's Space Shuttle program crashed in Columbia in two thousand three years. All seven crew members in this spacecraft died. After that, NASA started investigating the incident. The launch of the space shuttle was suspended for two years, and since then the Russian Soyuz has been the only means of transporting supplies and crew to the ISS. The ISS was not habitable for astronauts until two thousand years ago. It has been made habitable for the newcomers by adding various facilities for living up to two thousand years. Astronauts have been living here regularly since November 2000. The station houses six to seven astronauts at all times, whose main purpose is to conduct research that can only be done in space.
Every astronaut stationed at the station has a minimum stay of six months, but in some fields, some can stay for up to a year.
The head of the Russian space agency wrote in a tweet that since America has imposed sanctions on our space industry, they should use Trump polling to get to the International Space Station. NASA later announced that it would cease all cooperation with Russia except for the International Space Station due to the Crimea crisis. The then NASA chief did not take the Russian space agency chief's tweet very seriously. According to him, they are not willing to take any conflict on earth to space. He said in an interview that they will continue the space diplomatic relations between the two countries which indicates the importance of their bilateral relations. Russia-US relations have reached a near-bottom following Russia's recent aggression in Ukraine, with bilateral relations at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War. But despite all this, the cooperation relationship between the two sides in the space is still maintained. Russia has not put US astronauts in space. Instead, they brought them to earth by swiss. Even recently, Russia has sent a new group of Russian astronauts into space. This proves that till now ISS is running well with the support of all countries. Earth's geopolitical problems have not yet reached at least space.
In the past decade, the International Space Station has played an immense role in revealing the unknown aspects of space. But this station is indeed quite old now. The cooperation agreement between various countries on this station will expire in 2024. Although in America it wants to increase it to two thousand and thirty years. Russia has not yet given any consent in this regard and has not signed the agreement. If the agreement is signed, the two countries have different plans for future space programs. Private companies are planning to build their own space stations in the coming days. Meanwhile, NASA wants to work depending on these private space stations. NASA wants to develop the Artemis program in cooperation with other countries. Through this, they can once again confirm the presence of humans on the moon.
Then they want to slowly march towards the conquest of Mars. But the two countries have not yet agreed on the purpose of America. Because they have different objectives, Russia is currently planning to build its own space station, while China wants to complete the construction of its own space station within this year. China is the second country in the world after America to place its flag on the surface of the moon. Which is certainly a new mile plaque on their way to conquer space.
If Russia does not participate in the International Space Station after 2024, then the ISS, including navigation, which Russia currently controls, may have to be designed by America, and America may have to take the help of private companies such as Elon Musk's SpaceX. The first Falcon One rocket made by Space X was able to reach orbit in the first attempt. Eighty-five of the eighty-seven space missions conducted by SpaceX have been successfully completed so far. The company has been successfully carrying satellite passengers and cargo into space on its own rockets for a long time. Their successful mission in 2020 greatly reduced Russia's dependence on the Suez. The greatest example of cooperation in the history of human civilization is the International Space Station.
The Ukraine crisis may or may not stop the cooperation at this station. Or maybe this station will be closed forever. But it was actually foreseen. Now maybe because of this crisis, the closing process will be a little faster than before. But the main concern is not that the ISS is shutting down or will be shut down, what is worrying is that there may not be any common ground or platform for future cooperation between different countries in space. Everyone will want to establish their own poles in space in different ways. Earth has yet to see many war planets. In the future maybe space will witness war or world war.
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