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23 April 2021, 02:04 pm Russia is planning to leave NASA's International Space Station (ISS) and has begun building its own amid reports of renewed tensions between the eastern country and the United States. The news comes after Moscow expressed intentions to leave the ISS program and told Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities (Roscosmos) to build an equivalent space station. Russia's Decision to Leave the International Space Station Program Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov had recently expressed the country's intentions to leave the ISS program in 2025 but defended that...

by Tyler Durden Wednesday, Apr 21, 2021 - 11:20 PM As tensions increase between Russia and the US, the Russian space agency has announced it will withdraw from the International Space Station (ISS) in 2025 and has already begun work on a space station of its own, according to BBC News.  The US and Russia jointly launched the ISS in 1998 and was hailed as significant steps to reconstruct souring relations between the cold war adversaries. But Russian officials have indicated they will pull out of the ISS by 2025.  The ISS is 23 years old and is rapidly aging, posing a danger for astronauts....

HARARE, (CAJ News) – RUSSIA has pledged to contribute to the development of the Zimbabwe National Geospatial and Space Agency (ZINGSA). The pledge, in line with the cordial relations between the two countries, coincides with commemorations of the first human to journey into outer space. Yury Gagarin, the Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, achieved the milestone on April 12, 1961. The flight lasted for 108 minutes. Since 2011 on Russia’s initiative, the United Nations General Assembly Resolution has annually marked April 12 as the International Day of Human Space Flight. Russia, through its ambi...

For years, both the Executive and Congress have expressed concerns over PNT vulnerabilities and clamored for solutions. Yet little has changed. Three important reports emerged at the tail end of the old regime. As new leadership takes the helm, in which direction will it take the PNT enterprise? As far back as 1996, when Executive Order (EO) 13010 stood up The President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, folks started taking notice that exclusive reliance on GPS for U.S. transportation creates undue risk. Two years later, Presidential Decision Directive 63 ordered the Depar...

India News: Sivan, also secretary in the department of space (DoS), said the reforms initiated in the sector by the government in June last year to promote enhanc