The Russian space agency will stop supplying rocket engines to the United States in response to Western sanctions, Roscosmos chief Dmitri Rogozin said in an interview on public television on Monday.
“Today we have made a decision to stop deliveries of rocket motors produced by Energomash to the United States. Let me remind you that this supply has been quite intense since the mid-1990s,” Rogozin said.
“In this situation we cannot continue to supply the United States with our rocket engines, which are the best in the world, let them fly on their brooms or whatever,” he said.
Rogozin was referring to RD-180 engines, as the main engine for the Atlas-5 rocket, and the RD-181 engine, which is used by the first stage of the Antares rocket.
And he said that they also suspend technical assistance for the engines that the United States already has.
In addition, he stressed that Roscosmos will not cooperate with Germany in joint experiments on the International Space Station (ISS). (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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