Talk:Russian Orbital Segment

Zarya
This module is not part of the ROS. It is owned and operated by NASA. This is in the source cited for the paragraph in the article. Soo... WTF? --U5K0'sTalkMake WikiLove not WikiWar 09:34, 3 October 2011 (UTC)


 * That's NASA for you, trying to take credit for everything. Sure they hype themselves, but hey, who "paid for" the design and development of Zarya ? NASA is famous for saying they just don't have enough money for pretty much anything they are asked to do, and it's a far stretch to say they 'paid for' the TKS based design of Zarya, or anything else about it's design. Operated is really really easy to solve, you can find the NASA memorandum of understanding which states Zarya is operated by the Russian Federation. Probably says that Russia retains ownership of it's modules as well. Anyhow, like me, you have to take everything NASA says as being, well, technically, possibly, maybe correct.


 * I think you can say they paid for it, or bought it off the Russians in the beginning. They also had to barter back the Launch of Zarya by the Russians by taking a Russian module, Rassvet up to the ROS in a NASA shuttle.


 * Maybe we should leave Zarya out of the ROS in some ways, but you'll find many many refs that leave it in, so understanding why it is now 'in' would be key. Like if something further down the line happened. For example, did they have to trade ownership for flights to the station, on one of the occasions they became completely reliant on the Soyuz ? Penyulap   talk 04:02, 23 February 2012 (UTC)


 * After a think and a read, I'd say that the US was supposed to provide a FGB, but couldn't afford the research and development cost, and so they paid for the construction cost for the Russians to complete the outfitting of the left-over MIR module as a FGB, using their own Russian designs and systems, borrowed a launch from the Russians, and then rapidly traded back all rights to Zarya for other stuff they needed, although I'm not sure that they have ever had any rights to Zarya, so it's worth studying that one closely. Penyulap   talk 04:17, 23 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Zarya is a US-owned module. See http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/rs/zarya.html, http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/fgb.html#.U22LU_ldV8E, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12984241 though I would assume the ownership is only titular since Zarya is operated by Roscosmos.Anythingcouldhappen (talk) 02:20, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Definition
Where does the definition of the ROS come from. It definitely is not in the source cited for that section. It seems to me that this entire article is dependant on that definition. These two things together strike me as very trubling. --U5K0'sTalkMake WikiLove not WikiWar 10:11, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
 * One source can be the "ISS future" PDF linked on the OPSEK Presentation page. But in general, I think its name came from the language by default and was just codified by Roskosmos using it.195.212.29.189 (talk) 22:18, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Russian Orbital Segment
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Russian Orbital Segment's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "AWST20201026": From Nauka (ISS module):  From Science Power Platform:  

Reference named "rsw20210209": From Nauka (ISS module):  From Soyuz MS-19:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 20:23, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

Former Modules?
Since Pirs was deobited this year, should there not be a new section in the article referencing former modules to the Russian Orbital Segment? AmigaClone (talk) 08:04, 27 November 2021 (UTC)