Roskosmos: the development of a preliminary design of the orbital station will begin in 2022 
In 2022, the preliminary design of the Russian orbital station will begin. The timing of the start of work was announced by the executive director of the state corporation “Roscosmos” for promising programs and science Alexander Bloshenko. Interfax reports this.
“The draft design should start from next year. To do this, the government needs to include such work in the list of measures for the state defense order. We have submitted an appropriate proposal, “Bloshenko noted.
A representative of Roscosmos said that preliminary design work could begin next year. In his opinion, this stage can be completed in a year and a half.
Earlier, the head of the state corporation “Roscosmos” Dmitry Rogozin called the Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS) of the new ISS. According to him, Russia is also ready to take part in international projects for the creation of orbital stations.
In September, it became known about the financing of the ROSS project. Roscosmos has allocated money for the creation of an orbital station. 1.7 billion rubles were allocated for the project of a manned flight to the moon and work on the ROSS project.
In April, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov announced that Russia could withdraw from the International Space Station (ISS) project by 2025.