Kremlin on Thursday removed the head of Russia’s Space Agency after a tenure of less than three years, which was surrounded by the brilliant failure of the first mission of Russia for the Moon in 47 years.
In a statement, Kremlin stated that Yuri Borisov, who had led Roscosmos since July 2022, was relieved by his post. It did not give any reason. He was replaced by Deputy Minister of Corporation Dimitri Bakanov, who was in charge of a satellite company before joining the government.
Ever since the Soviet Cosmonot Yuri Gagarin became the first person to go into space in 1961, Russia has proud of himself as a leading power in space exploration. But its ambitions suffered a massive blow in August 2023, when its unheard Luna -25 missions strived to land and collapsed in the surface of the moon.
Borisov, despite that failure, made ambitious plans for the coming years as Russia prepared to launch its orbital space station. The new project will replace Azing International Space Station (ISS), where Russia has collaborated in collaboration with the United States even after the relationship in Ukraine was in a crisis of relations.
Last year, Borisov approved a schedule under which the first two modules of the new Russian station will be launched in 2027. Russia has said that it is a plan to maintain the presence of a crew in space and operate scientific, economic and security-related projects that were not possible. Russian section of ISS.
World powers are competing not only to detect space but also to deploy weapons. With the end of Lump in 2026 of the last major agreement between Russia and the US, which limits their nuclear weapons, each side alleged other schemes that they are planning to remove a weapon race in space. Are.
Outgoing Boss Borisov, formerly served as Deputy Defense Minister under Sergei Shoigu, who was replaced by President Vladimir Putin last year and went into a new role as Secretary of Russia’s Security Council,
His replacement Baknoov is the former head of a company called Gonnets, which conducts a Russian satellite communication system similar to the US Starlink, but is very small in size and is mainly used for government purposes.
The company was a Russian partner in OneWeb, a global satellite communication project. Russia planned to actively participate in a web, but in 2018 the FSB Intelligence Agency said that it was a threat to national security.
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