The International Space Station (ISS) may bypass orbit in 2031 or 2032, reported the Director General of the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos), Dmitry Bakanov. "Currently, they (the American side - reference TASS) asked us to postpone [the end of the operations] from 2028 to 2030, and then proceed with the cancellation of their route in 2031 or 2032," he explained during the Russia-Africa forum. Among other things, it is planned to launch the first module of the Russian orbital station in 2028.