Russia Debates Orbit and Costs for Post-ISS Space Station. Anatoly Zak explains how Roscosmos faces a debate over the orbit of its new space station: a low-inclination 51-degree orbit or a more expensive near-polar orbit. The polar orbit offers strategic
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 17 October 2025
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| 0:24.0 | I'm Jack thatatchel with my good colleagues, David Livingston of the space show. He is Dr. |
| 0:29.3 | Space and Anatolese Act of the Russian Space Web. Both sites I recommend to follow what |
| 0:35.6 | happens next, which is we've moved past the geeky stage. |
| 0:39.0 | We're into commercial and operational and exploring stage, low earth orbit, |
| 0:45.0 | La Grange points, the moon, Mars, all coming. But you need details. And we're talking about |
| 0:51.2 | the details that the Russians need for their own space station after ISS is deorbited. |
| 0:57.1 | David, do you have a question about the future? |
| 1:00.5 | And totally realistically, a timeline for an operational post-ISS Russian station given all that they need to build out on the ground as well as the station, |
| 1:13.6 | and might they take in partners? |
| 1:15.6 | So politically it's very difficult for them right now to get partners besides Iran and North Korea. |
| 1:24.6 | So this is kind of out of the question. |
| 1:26.6 | And of course, Chinese have their own space station, |
| 1:28.5 | and they pretty much run their own program. |
| 1:31.3 | So they pretty much on their own. |
| 1:33.1 | At this point, they have to do the space station. |
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