International Space Station programme

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GS PAPER III: Science and Technology- developments and their applications and effects in everyday life.

Context: Russia says it will launch own space station in 2025. It plans to withdraw from ISS project. The announcement came with tensions soaring with the West

International Space Station programme

Launched in 1998 and involving Russia, the United States, Canada, Japan, and the European Space Agency.
ISS is one of the most ambitious international collaborations in human history.
International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the five space agencies and their respective International Space Station programmes and govern how they interact with each other on a daily basis to maintain station operations, from traffic control of spacecraft to and from the station, to utilisation of space and crew time.
China and India are not member of ISSP.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/russia-says-it-will-launch-own-space-station-in-2025/article34370209.ece