Russia’s space corporation Roscosmos already knows the shape and parameters of a future orbital station and the stages of its creation, Roscosmos CEO Yury Borisov said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.

"The preliminary design will be ready in the summer. Today, we already know the station’s main parameters and shape and the stages of its creation," he said.

Putin noted that one of the purposes of the station would be to implement the Moon program.

"As far as I understand, one of the functions, one of the purposes of this Russian orbital station will be, among other things, to prepare for the implementation of our plans regarding the Moon," Putin said.

Borisov confirmed that the new orbit and radiation environment will allow for deepening and mastering the technologies that will be needed for deep space exploration, in particular for the Moon program. This is one of the advantages of the new orbit and the new orbital makeup of Russia’s future station," Borisov concluded.