RESEARCH PROGRAM AND EXPERIMENTS ON BOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION RUSSIAN SEGMENT

摘要

At present the International Space Station (ISS) is regarded primarily as a multi-purpose research laboratory for a wide range of scientific and technical research connected with the further exploration of the Solar system and development of technologies for the terrestrial applications. Operations of the ISS as a whole and the Russian segment (RS) as an integral part were extended until 2020. Research program and experiments on board the ISS Russian Segment is described for the following scientific and technological research areas: ? Physical and chemical processes and space material science ? Geophysics and the near-Earth space ? Medical and biological research ? Earth remote sensing ? Solar system investigations ? Space biotechnology ? Technical studies and experiments ? Astrophysics and fundamental physical problems ? Study of the physical conditions in space on the ISS orbit ? Education and promotion of space research achievements