NASA intends to maintain contacts with Roscosmos to ensure the safe operation of the International Space Station and to continue cooperation between Russia and the United States in the field of the civil space program.
Russia will not supply rocket engines to the United States, the Rossiya 24 TV channel reports.
Roscosmos is also ending cooperation with Germany on experiments on the ISS. This was preceded by the German side turning off the Russian telescope. “Taking into account the completely unacceptable actions of our German colleagues, primarily the German Center for Aviation and Cosmonautics, we have subsequently turned off one of the telescopes of our Spektr-RG space observatory, which is located 1.5 million kilometers from Earth at the La Grange L2 point… “This is an absolutely civilian international mission to study the starry sky,” said the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin.
Work to prepare for future launches of British OneWeb communications satellites is also being cancelled, said Alexander Lopatin, Deputy Director General for Rocket Science and Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure at Roscosmos. Including the launch of a Soyuz rocket with OneWeb satellites scheduled for March 5 from Baikonur was cancelled. Roscosmos General Director Dmitry Rogozin ordered the cancellation of the launch of the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the British OneWeb communications satellites.
A representative of the American space agency NASA, in turn, noted that no changes are planned in the agency’s work to maintain work in orbit and the ground services that support it.
In the current situation, Roscosmos will pay additional attention to the development of its own orbital constellation for meteorological purposes due to the risk of Russia’s possible disconnection from data from American and European weather satellites.
