The International space station (aka ISS) established by NASA in collaboration with many other nations (Russia, Japan and European Nations) is getting old and about to expire in between Yr. 2024 - 2028.
Before going forward, you all must know some basics such as what is an ISS ? Why it is Important ?
What resources are required to launch an space Station ?
ISS is an research lab establish in space which allows researchers to conduct various researches in self control gravity atmosphere. ISS is approximately 400 MT weigh lab, rotating around Earth with an astonishing high speed of 7.66 Km/second and many researchers had visited ISS to conduct several experiments. As it is a very heavy satellite, it requires multiple lunches and very high precision equipment for assembly in Space. Its total budget is 100 times more than the annual budget of ISRO. Isn't it huge.
Now as we know that such an expensive and state of an art Space laboratory is dying what could be the future? China has reviled there 60 MT Space station, which they were working on since 2011. The Chinese Space Station - Tiangong is smaller than ISS but will be equipped with all the latest instruments. China has also extended there invitation to all the nations to conduct several researches in Tiangong, but looking into their history it is not a reliable source to depend on. Moreover US has an act, to not to collaborate with China in any Space exploration program.
As the budget of Space stations is very high, the nations such as Japan, Russia, France and India would avoid launching their own Space stations. Private players are also not interested in such high risk and extremely expensive program. Now the only possibility left is to have a collaboration between NASA, ISRO, Roscosmos, JAXA and CNES & initiate a joint project to launch a space station by 2028.
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