{"id":144504,"date":"2022-08-20T17:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T22:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/after-quitting-the-iss-russia-reveals-its-next-gen-space-station"},"modified":"2022-08-20T17:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T22:22:19","slug":"after-quitting-the-iss-russia-reveals-its-next-gen-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/after-quitting-the-iss-russia-reveals-its-next-gen-space-station","title":{"rendered":"After quitting the ISS, Russia reveals its next-gen space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/after-quitting-the-iss-russia-reveals-its-next-gen-space-station3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meet ROSS, Russia\u2019s new space station.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>But unlike the ISS, ROSS won\u2019t have permanent residents year-round. Instead, it will only host cosmonauts \u201ctwice a year for extended periods,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/science\/russia-planning-go-it-alone-unveils-model-new-space-station-2022-08-15\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">according<\/a> to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>ROSS is still years out and shrouded in secrecy, so it\u2019s hard to predict exactly how the new space station could surpass the ISS\u2019s capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Roscosmos officials have told Russian state media that the station will likely orbit at higher latitudes than the ISS does. This could offer a better view of the Earth\u2019s polar regions, which Russian researchers could analyze with optical, infrared, ultraviolet instruments. After all, Russia\u2019s borders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thearcticinstitute.org\/countries\/russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">cover 53 percent<\/a> of the Arctic Ocean\u2019s entire coastline, and the country likely wants to use ROSS to chart northern sea routes as climate change melts Arctic sea ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet ROSS, Russia\u2019s new space station. But unlike the ISS, ROSS won\u2019t have permanent residents year-round. Instead, it will only host cosmonauts \u201ctwice a year for extended periods,\u201d according to Reuters. ROSS is still years out and shrouded in secrecy, so it\u2019s hard to predict exactly how the new space station could surpass the ISS\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}