That’s kind of the point. Russia already announced withdrawing from ISS and said they would build their own. The Soviets did build a couple small space stations back in the day, leading up to ISS so in theory they just need to dust off the plans and gather any spare parts. Even if that was it, I can’t see this happening

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 4 points 11 months ago

Okay Igor, where are the plans?

Igor?

Oh yeah I sent Igor to gulag, and then to Ukraine.

Vanya, where are the plans?

Vanya?

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[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

If I remember correctly, the Soviet space programme used to always build a backup. If the original worked, the backup would be maintained and then used on another mission, or used to train cosmonauts. So Mir's backup became the ISS's core module, and so on. So they should have some modules already built, and of course they have launch vehicles. The problem will be funding.

Anyway, NASA + ESA + Japan + Canada are planning another space station, but in lunar orbit.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

It is most likely everything was scavenged and sold. There are videos of a current state of Buran, it's pretty much a skeleton of itself as everything valuable got stolen.