debriefing (№ 2 ) Dangerous Orbit ROSS (2022)

The ISS project is coming to an end.

Unlike the ISS, the Russian ROSS orbital service station will become not inhabited, but visited.

Most likely, a crew of 2-4 people will arrive 1-2 times a year for a couple of months to maintain equipment and monitor particularly complex processes.

The rest of the time, the tasks will be performed by automation.

The shortening of the stay of astronauts is due not only to the development of technology, but also to a more dangerous orbit.

Dmitry Rogozin clarified that the national station will operate in orbit with an inclination of 96-98 degrees (the inclination of the ISS is 51.6).

This will allow you to fly practically from pole to pole and observe any point of the Earth, including Russia, whereas the ISS route covers only 20% of the country's territory.

The northern regions are not visible from the board of the Moscow Time Station at all, Moscow and St.

Petersburg are only at a strong angle.

Through the ROSS portholes, astronauts will be able to view their homeland from a height of 300-350 km.

According to Rogozin, such an orbit will open up new prospects for science.

Flights along the trajectory of the ISS have exhausted themselves in this sense: "...because in an orbit with an inclination of 51.6 degrees, everything is clear and has been studied for a long time, we cannot continue to work within the framework of manned cosmonautics without forming a task for ourselves that is fundamentally different from what has already been passed, what the Soviet and Russian cosmonautics already have."

Scientists Andrey Ionin and Vyacheslav Shurshakov are visiting the program.

The second part of the program about the features of the future ROSS national station is devoted to two aspects at once.

In scientific terms, experts discussed the benefits of increased radiation levels in the polar orbit, where they plan to launch ROSS, it will allow developing protection methods in conditions close to the conditions of flights to the Moon and beyond.

According to scientists, it is important to build plans for the development of astronautics in accordance with national interests, for example, the Sphere orbital grouping and the Moon exploration project are so important that the BRICS countries are interested in partnership.

So, why not be afraid of radiation for ROSS, what place the project occupies among Russian space plans and how lunar radiation will unite Russia and the BRICS countries, Andrei Ionin and Vyacheslav Shurshakov argue.