About it reports RIA Novosti with reference to a source in the Russian rocket and space industry.
It is noted that initially it was planned to send this equipment for recycling, but the situation changed when the Soyuz MS-10 ship could not go to the station due to a launch vehicle accident.
“In February of next year, the Canadian manipulator will take a platform with 2.5 tons of batteries, transfer it to a point below the station and send it to free flight. The battery platform will be the heaviest trash ejected from the ISS, ”the source said.
It clarifies that the garbage will have to burn in the dense layers of the atmosphere, so that this decision will not have environmental consequences.
Earlier it was reported that members of the 56th long-term expedition of the International Space Station returned from orbit to Earth.