it was a taxi service that took astronauts to the iss when safety concerns grounded america s shuttle. but the russian technology is old and now is of less use to its former international partners. so once a space station is decommissioned, could russia the first nation into space be the first one out? if the russians haven t figured out an alternative by then, and obviously we know that especially european and american space agencies are looking towards the potential of commercial space stations, if russia doesn t partner up with another nation or field its own space station, which, given the current circumstances and sanctions, is quite unlikely, it might not have any crewed space flight. and there s no shortage of others to fill russia s place. china s space programme is advancing and pretty much to schedule too. in the last ten years, it s launched more than 200 rockets.
it was a taxi service that took astronauts to the iss when safety concerns grounded america s shuttle. but the russian technology is old and now is of less use to its former international partners. so once the space station is decommissioned, could russia, the first nation into space, be the first one out? if the russians haven t figured out an alternative by then, and obviously we know that especially european and american space agencies are looking towards the potential of commercial space stations, if russia doesn t partner up with another nation or field its own space station, which, given the current circumstances and sanctions, is quite unlikely, it might not have any crewed space flight. and there s no shortage of others to fill russia s place. china s space programme is advancing. ..and pretty much to schedule too.
0ur way of working only functions with satellites for telecom, for navigation, for earth observation, for weather forecasting, for many things. so, we need the satellites for our daily life. the country that first sent a person into space is crashing back to earth, because of its war in ukraine. if russia doesn t partner up with another nation l or field its own space station, which given the current - circumstances and sanctions is quite unlikely, it might not have any- crewed space flight. what became a story of collaboration is now once again one of competition and conflict. china has its own space station. india wants one. and private companies are getting in on the act, too, sending up their own rockets. i m pallab ghosh, the bbc s science correspondent.
our way of working only functions with satellites for telecom, for navigation, for earth observation, for weather forecasting, for many things. so we need these satellites for our daily life. the country that first sent a person into space is crashing back to earth because of its war in ukraine. if russia doesn t partner up with another nation or field its own space station, which given the current circumstances and sanctions is quite unlikely, it might not have any crewed space flight. what became a story of collaboration is now once again one of competition and conflict. china has its own space station. india wants one. and private companies are getting in on the act, too, sending up their own rockets. i m pallab ghosh, the bbc s
astronauts to the iss when safety concerns grounded america s shuttle. but the russian technology is old and now is of less use to its former international partners. so once a space station is decommissioned, could russia the first nation into space be the first one out? if the russians haven t figured out an alternative by then, and obviously we know that especially european and american space agencies are looking towards the potential of commercial space stations, if russia doesn t partner up with another nation or field its own space station, which, given the current circumstances and sanctions, is quite unlikely, it might not have any crewed space flight. and there s no shortage of others to fill russia s place. china s space programme is advancing and pretty much to schedule too. in the last ten years,