MOSCOW, March 30. /TASS/. The rocket and space corporation Energia will complete the initial design of Russia’s prospective orbital station later this year, the Roscosmos state-run space corporation said in a statement.

"[Roscosmos Director General] Dmitry Rogozin said that in its human spaceflight program, the state corporation is aiming at the deployment of the Russian Orbital Service Station, whose initial design is to be completed this year by RSC Energia," Roscosmos said in a statement, issued after Rogozin’s meeting with members of the expert council.

In April 2021, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov said that the condition of the ISS leaves much to be desired, so Russia could focus on creating its own orbital station. The Energia Rocket and Space Corporation was tasked with building the first module for the new orbital station - a research and energy module - by the end of 2025. It was previously planned to send this module to the ISS in 2024.

The scientific and technical council of Roscosmos recommended that work on the technical design for the new orbital station be included in the Federal Space Program-2025.