International Space Station programme
GS PAPER III: Science and Technology- developments and their applications and effects in everyday life.
Context: Russia says it will launch own space station in 2025. It plans to withdraw from ISS project. The announcement came with tensions soaring with the West
International Space Station programme
- Launched in 1998 and involving Russia, the United States, Canada, Japan, and the European Space Agency.
- ISS is one of the most ambitious international collaborations in human history.
- International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the five space agencies and their respective International Space Station programmes and govern how they interact with each other on a daily basis to maintain station operations, from traffic control of spacecraft to and from the station, to utilisation of space and crew time.
- China and India are not member of ISSP.
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