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Russia to ban US from using Space Station over Ukraine sanctions
In retaliation for imposing sanctions, Russia will also bar its rocket engines from launching US military satellites
From left: Steve Swanson from the US and Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev from Russia before the launch
From left: Steve Swanson from the US and Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev from Russia before the launch Photo: Camera Press/Ria Novosti
Reuters7:56PM BST 13 May 2014
Russia is to deny the US future use of the International Space Station beyond 2020 and will also bar its rocket engines from launching US military satellites as it hits back at American sanctions imposed over Ukraine crisis.
Russia’s deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin announced a series of punitive measures on Tuesday against the US in response to sanctions imposed after Russia annexed Crimea.
The two countries have long cooperated closely on space exploration despite their clashes in foreign policy.
The Space Station is manned by both American and Russian crew, but the only way to reach it is by using Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft.
The US is keen to keep the $100 billion (£600) ISS flying until at least 2024, four years beyond its original target.
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At a time when Moscow is struggling to reform its accident-plagued space programme, Mr Rogozin said US plans to deny export licences for some high-technology items were a blow to Russian industry. “These sanctions are out of place and inappropriate,” Mr Rogozin said. “We have enough of our own problems.”
Moscow’s response would affect NK-33 and RD-180 engines which Russia supplies to the US, Mr Rogozin said. “We are ready to deliver these engines but on one condition that they will not be used to launch military satellites,” he said.
RD-180 engines are used to boost Atlas 5 rockets manufactured by United Launch Alliance, a partnership of Lockheed Martin and Boeing that holds a virtual monopoly on launching U.S. military satellites.
Mr Rogozin said Moscow was planning "strategic changes" in its space industry after 2020 and aims to use money and "intellectual resources" that now go to the space station for a "a project with more prospects".
He suggested Russia could use the station without the United States, saying: "The Russian segment can exist independently from the American one. The U.S. one cannot."
The US space agency NASA is working with companies to develop space taxis with the goal of restoring US transport to the station by 2017, but the United States currently pays Russia more than $60 million per person to fly its astronauts up.
Mr Rogozin said Russia will suspend the operation of 11 GPS sites on its territory from June and seek talks with Washington on opening similar sites in the United States for Russia's own satellite navigation system, Glonass.
He threatened the permanent closure of the GPS sites in Russia if that is not agreed by September.
He said the suspension of the sites would not affect everyday operations of the GPS system in Russia, where it is used by millions of Russians for navigation on their smartphones and in their cars.
The upheaval in Ukraine - where the United States says Russia is backing separatists and the Kremlin accuses Washington of helping protesters to topple a Moscow-friendly president in February, has led to the worst East-West crisis since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
In addition to the hi-tech sector sanctions, the US has imposed visa bans and assets freezes on officials and lawmakers and targeted companies with links to President Vladimir Putin. The European Union has also imposed sanctions.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said earlier on Tuesday that the latest EU measures were an "exhausted, trite approach" that would only deepen discord and hamper efforts to defuse the crisis in Ukraine.

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[Buster]

They'll be sorry they did that!

Oh...wait...we don't scare anyone anymore.

 

[DBS1970]

Meh.

Its a hole in the ground where we throw money anyway.

 

[Roy92040]

They really caught us napping.

 

[Omar10213245]

Way to cut and paste, brah!

 

[xjx]

Cell 0 hone style. It's the content that matters. But go ahead and complain mister catholic schoolboy perfectguy.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Meh.

Its a hole in the ground where we throw money anyway.

Cutting back on NASA is the one thing where I agree with Bomma.

 

[CharlesDavenport]

Cutting back on NASA is the one thing where I agree with Bomma.

Not me. Everyone will regret it when Russia and China dominate space. This is an early illustration. As soon as we get an administration in there that realizes it isn't NASA's mission to boost Muslim self-esteem and propagate bogus global warming crap, we've got some catching up to do.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

I get where you're coming from but I don't think the Chinese and the Rooskies will be able to afford to keep it up. WSJ had a good article last week about all the human capital that Russia is losing and the Chinese are going to eventually figure out that spending money in space isn't bringing them a good enough ROI.

As soon as we get an administration in there that realizes it isn't NASA's mission to boost Muslim self-esteem and propagate bogus global warming crap, we've got some catching up to do.

Yeah, that was comedy gold.

 

[Superman]

i see the ISS as a significant investment in the future of mankind.
believe it or not, but the planet as we know it is changing. at some point, fossil fuels will be a thing of the past, as those are not being replenished at the same ratio as they're being extracted and used. an alternate form of energy is going to need to be found. at some point we'll be colonizing other planets.

 

[Vader]

I don't know if planet colonization is ever going to happen. People assume there is some magic fuel somewhere but even if there were, space exploration is close to impossible because of the dynamics of light speed and the vastness of space.

However, there needs to be a U.S space program because of all the things that has brought us. Even if it is out sourced to private companies it needs to be done.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

i see the ISS as a significant investment in the future of mankind.
believe it or not, but the planet as we know it is changing. at some point, fossil fuels will be a thing of the past, as those are not being replenished at the same ratio as they're being extracted and used. an alternate form of energy is going to need to be found. at some point we'll be colonizing other planets.

Never happen because we won't have the energy sources or the money to do it. I don't think we'll run out of fossil fuels either but I could live in FL without A/C easier than I could live in PA without heat and I'll be down there with you in two years or so.

 

[Lunar]

i see the ISS as a significant investment in the future of mankind.
believe it or not, but the planet as we know it is changing. at some point, fossil fuels will be a thing of the past, as those are not being replenished at the same ratio as they're being extracted and used. an alternate form of energy is going to need to be found. at some point we'll be colonizing other planets.

SDS wants to colonize uranus.

 

[IndySteel]

Bomb the **** out of them.

 

[EdReed4Prez]

They sure do sound like a geo political foe. Good thing we know they aren't.

 

[Superman]

They sure do sound like a geo political foe. Good thing we know they aren't.

you goddamn racist *******. How dare you imply that Dear Leader is wrong?! I spit at you and your very existence.

 

[USDA#1]

****'em.


saves our people dying in that hunk of space debris.

 

[USDA#1]

Cutting back on NASA is the one thing where I agree with Bomma.

Nasa isn't the only one shooting stuff into Space, check the budgets....

the air force and I think the navy both have their own gig....I suspect the 3 letters bunch has their own roman candle show too.

 

[Ironcitysteelers]

Well we need to continue to find our private companies like space X and others. I think we need to continue space exploration as well.

 

[jitter77]

I would much rather see NASA get money than a bunch of welfare bums. At least NASA gave us some good inventions / technology. I am sure there are billions of dollars wasted elsewhere as well. As for Russia who knows what is going on. I think something in Putin snapped and he is losing his mind. Seems like they have minimal gain and a lot to lose by pissing off the rest of the world.

 

[Rod Farva]

However, there needs to be a U.S space program because of all the things that has brought us. Even if it is out sourced to private companies it needs to be done.

What are you some kind free enterprise, capitalist freak?

I would much rather see NASA get money than a bunch of welfare bums. At least NASA gave us some good inventions / technology. I am sure there are billions of dollars wasted elsewhere as well. As for Russia who knows what is going on. I think something in Putin snapped and he is losing his mind. Seems like they have minimal gain and a lot to lose by pissing off the rest of the world.

Hasn't hurt his hockey game. Dude is a superstar!