TheLunar Orbital Station (Russian:Лунная Орбитальная Станция,romanized: Lunnaya Orbital'naya Stantsiya; LOS) is a proposedRussianspace station which would orbit around theMoon.[1] The design was presented in 2007 at a conference at theGagarin Cosmonaut Training Center inStar City. It is one of the two parts of the planned Russian lunar infrastructure, the other part being a base on the surface of the Moon.
LOS would have six docking ports, a high-powerantenna forcommunications, maneuvering andattitude control engines,solar panels and arobotic arm. The station components would be launched atop a super heavy version of theAngara rocket.
Russia has expressed discontent with its role in the internationalLunar Gateway, which prompted the country to go ahead with the planning of its own lunar station. In October 2020,Dmitry Rogozin, director general of Roscosmos, said that the Lunar Gateway program is too “U.S.-centric” for Roscosmos to participate in.[2] In January 2021, Roscosmos announced that it will not participate in the program.[3]
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Notes: † Never inhabited due to launch or on-orbit failure, ‡ Part of theAlmaz military program, ° Never inhabited, lacks docking mechanism. | |||||||||
