Russia warns sanctions could bring down International Space Station

Western sanctions against Russia could cause the fall of the International Space Station (ISS), Dmitri Rogozin, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, said on Saturday.

According to him, the operation of the Russian rockets that supply the ISS will be disturbed by the sanctions, which will have an impact on the Russian segment of the station, which mainly serves to correct the orbit. Therefore, this could cause the “splashdown or landing of the ISS, which weighs 500 tons.”

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“The Russian segment watches that the station’s orbit is corrected (an average of eleven times a year), also to avoid space debris”explained Rogozin, who often shows his support for the Russian army on social media.

Posting a map of the world, the head of Roscosmos said if the ISS fell, Russia was protected.

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“But the populations of other countries, especially those led by the ‘dogs of war’ (Western countries, ndlr) should think about the price of sanctions against Roscosmos”he wrote, calling those who have imposed these punitive measures “crazy”.

On March 1, NASA indicated that it was working to find solutions to keep the station in orbit without help from Russia.

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The crews and supplies are transported in this segment by the Soyuz rockets and the Progress ships for the transport of food and merchandise.both Russians. Rogozin explained that the launcher necessary for these rockets to reach their point is affected “by US sanctions from 2021 and by sanctions from the European Union (EU) and Canada from 2022.”

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Roscosmos states that it appealed to its US (NASA), Canadian (ASC) and European (ESA) partners “demanding an end to illegal sanctions against our companies”.

Space is one of the latest fields of cooperation between Russia and the United States.

At the beginning of March, Roscosmos announced his intention to give priority to the construction of military satellites, due to the increasing isolation of Russia by the conflict.

Rogozin also announced that Russia would no longer supply the United States with engines for its Atlas and Antares rockets.

“Send them into space on their brooms”, commented.

On March 30, astronaut Mark Vande Hei and the two cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pïotr Dubrov will return to Earth from the ISS on a Soyuz rocket.

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Source: Elcomercio

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