Russia is about to do the most Russia thing ever with its next space station
arstechnica.com"Orlov clarified that ROS would be separated into an independent flight in the future, after the completion of the ISS project."
As usual, just another example Ars Technica infantile ideological sport of mocking the Russians. Gawker may have died, but its spirit lives.
Just a few years ago this title would've been a Outbrain slop ad on a shady site. I'm not even gonna click. Ars is 90% trash since they were bought by Conde Nast.
Completely stupid text, but it is successful slop for the mindless Russian-hating crowd. No matter that probably Ars Technica reports couldn't even name and enumerate the functionality of the existing ISS modules. Or try to figure out which kind of modules will be sent first by the Russians. What is important is generating funny slop "Elbonia mud-people jerry-rigging old trash to build space station".
It’ll be interesting to see how they deal with the aging components and for how long will they remain in operation as new modules are added. The technical problems are real and LEO is an unforgiving environment - stuff breaks, wears, reacts with highest wisps the atmosphere, and so on.
On the bright side, Russia will have unique learning from extending the lifetime of the lab based on the first parts that were installed.