By akademiotoelektronik, 07/09/2022

Russia and China will jointly deploy a space station around the moon

Russia and China have just signed an agreement in order to deploy an "international scientific scientific station" in orbit around the moon.The news was announced Tuesday by space agencies of each country.

A few days after the discovery of a mysterious sharp stone on the moon by Yutu 2, Russia and China announce their desire to make an "international space station" orbiting around the moon.The two space powers had been in talks for months, while Russia wondered if it would participate in the Gateway program of NASA, a rival lunar space station which will be built by a coalition of other countries in the next decade.

Moon objective for Russia and China

The project of "International Scientific Lunar Station", on which Russia and China will work, is "a complex of experimental research facilities created on the surface and / or on the orbit of the Moon," said Roscosmos in acommunicated.The project will be "open to all interested countries and international partners", according to the Russian space agency.

This station will be designed to support a variety of research experiences, "with the possibility of a long -term pilot operation, and the prospect of a human presence on the moon," said the press release.On the other hand, no calendar was revealed by the two space agencies, any more than the sums invested.A roadmap should be communicated in the weeks or months that arrive.

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The agreement, signed virtually between Chinese chief Zhang Kejian and the Russian space chief Dmitri Rogozine, marks the most recent Beijing effort to explore the moon.NASA is prohibited from collaborating with China under a law adopted by Congress in 2011.As for Russia, which has maintained a partnership of several decades with NASA on the international space station, it would have hesitated to extend its alliance with the United States to the Moon.

Saturday, November 14, SpaceX had Falcon 9 take off with four astronauts on board, direction the international space station.

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