European Space Agency (ESA) president Jean Jacques Dordain has stated that Russia\u2019s continued role in the development of the International Space Station (ISS) is crucial \u2013 as the United States continues to move away from commitments as they move their focus back to the Moon. <\/p>\n
The Americans are looking at a maximum of 18 more Shuttle flights to the ISS \u2013 most of those bringing US Core elements to join the current structure \u2013 forcing other space agencies involved in the ISS to look towards a future without US support. \u2018The ISS remains one of the most important projects for all the ESA member states and we cannot do without Russia\u2019s participation,\u2019 said Dordain to the RIA-Novosti news agency in Moscow. <\/font><\/p>\n Another 300 million euros will be spent by ESA on new technologies relating to space transportation, separate from their Vega and ATV projects \u2013 and while the Europeans try to keep on the side of the Russians, member states recently rejected funding to work on the Russian Kliper project. <\/font><\/p>\n That, however, may change. ESA hope to change their minds next June.<\/font><\/p>\n \u2018There are a lot of issues connected with Russia\u2019s participation and they will be discussed later, in more detail,\u2019 added Dordain in direct response to a question asking if ESA will revisit options on Russian Crew transports. The ESA council will also look into working with the Russians on their network of satellite communication project (GLONASS) \u2013 an advanced global positioning satellite (GPS) system, which is already being built with two more GLONASS-M elements being launched on December 25. <\/font><\/p>\n \u2018Our talks have been very successful because we can ensure wider cooperation with Russia,\u2019 added Dordain.<\/font><\/p>\n Spaceflight news subscription (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" European Space Agency (ESA) president Jean Jacques Dordain has stated that Russia\u2019s continued role in the development of the International Space Station (ISS) is crucial \u2013 as the United States continues to move away from commitments as they move their focus back to the Moon. The Americans are looking at a maximum of 18 more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nESA has committed 650 million euros for the next three years of development, but asked for reassurances that Russia\u2019s Moon ambitions won\u2019t distract them from their commitment to the ISS. <\/font> <\/p>\n
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\u2018It is not a question of member states for and member states against. I think the decision could not be taken for reasons that are not linked to Clipper (Kliper) itself. The decision could not be taken because of budgetary restraints.\u2019<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n