Russia and China have signed an agreement to jointly build a lunar space station, cementing Moscow’s pivot from NASA’s rival Moon program.
Russia and China have signed an agreement to build and work on an “International Scientific Lunar Station” orbiting the Moon, the countries’ space agencies announced Tuesday. The space powers had been in talks for months as Russia mulled over whether it would participate in
, which is barred from working with China under a law passed by Congress in 2011. Russia, which has maintained a decades-long partnership with secured agreements with the European Space Agency, Japan, and Canada for work on its Lunar Gateway, the planned space station orbiting the Moon. presented the Russian-American Memorandum of Understanding to Roscosmos concerning the cooperation within the Gateway project. The MoU suggested that Roscosmos commits to provide a crew airlock module,” the spokesperson said. “After studying the draft document, the participation of the Russian side to the volume suggested by the US partners was deemed impractical.” Russia soon pivoted its attentions to China’s lunar ambitions.
said in a statement to The Verge it “will be pursuing other options for the provider of the airlock,” and that Gateway planning for the piece’s 2028 launch “remains unchanged.” “While Roscosmos has informed
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