Podjęcie decyzji o przedłużeniu działania ISS powinna zapaść w ciągu 2. lat.
Są już zwolennicy i beneficjenci takiego rozwiązania,
W sytuacji, kiedy nie ma zobowiązujących działań dla nowej stacji orbitalnej, pozytywna decyzja powinna być spodziewana.
ISS partners seek clarity on station’s long-term futureby Jeff Foust — October 3, 2017
ADELAIDE, Australia — The head of NASA’s human spaceflight program says he would like to see a decision made in the next two years on whether and how International Space Station operations will be extended beyond 2024. (...)
That schedule had support from other ISS partners on the panel. “I agree with the timeframe of decision on the extension of space station beyond 2024,” said Koichi Wakata, ISS program manager at the Japanese space agency JAXA. “It’s very important for us to share the benefit, actually understand clearly what the benefit we have so far created ever since the start of the International Space Station, if we really want to continue operations beyond 2024.”
An extension is critical to at least one commercial user of the station. Oliver Juckenhöfel, vice president of on-orbit services and exploration at Airbus Defence and Space, said his company’s financial plans for the Bartolomeo external experiment rack it is developing for the station assume the ISS will be in service beyond 2024. “My business case goes to 2028,” he said. “If you’re stopping in 2024, I do have a problem.” (...)
http://spacenews.com/iss-partners-seek-clarity-on-stations-long-term-future/