MOSCOW. Nov 26 (Interfax) - The Energia Rocket and Space Corporation does not hold the view that the International Space Station's (ISS) operations should be terminated in 2025, Energia First Deputy CEO Vladimir Solovyov said.
"There is no talk about terminating the International Space Station's operations after 2025, and nobody has said anything about putting an end to our partnership. The report presented at a meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Space Council was made for information purposes and should not been seen as a proposal on the ISS's further development, and so the interpretation of the report's main ideas by some media is wrong," Roscosmos quoted Solovyov as saying.
"A decision on the station's future can be made only at the government level, after thoroughly analyzing the decisions proposed to the Roscosmos state corporation by space rocket industry enterprises in charge of the station's mission, primarily the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation, and after the matter is discussed with ISS program partners," he said.