
Moscow and New Delhi are discussing the unification of docking systems, interfaces and communication systems of future national orbital stations.
Russia and India plan to unify the docking systems, interfaces and communication systems of future national orbital stations to improve reliability and safety.
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Russia and India plan to develop national space stations in orbits with similar inclinations.
Russia and India plan to unify the docking systems of future national orbital stations, said First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov on the eve of the Innoprom.India exhibition. Interfax reports this.
“In order to increase the reliability of their operation, ensure the safety of crews and expand the possibilities of interaction in orbit, there are plans to unify the docking systems of national orbital stations, interfaces and communication systems,” said the First Deputy Prime Minister.
According to him, the promising stations in Russia and India have the same orbital inclination.
Earlier, leading researcher at the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor at Irkutsk State University Sergei Yazev, said that the inclination of the promising Russian Orbital Station (ROS), which coincides with the space laboratories planned by the American Indian side, will make it possible to secure the former through cooperation with the United States and India.

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