Posted on 07/14/2022 5:42:07 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
The European Space Agency has officially terminated cooperation with Russia on a mission to put a rover on Mars, with Russia’s space chief furiously responding by banning cosmonauts on the ISS from using a Europe-made robotic arm.
The ESA had previously suspended ties on the joint ExoMars mission, which had planned to use Russian rockets to put Europe’s Rosalind Franklin rover on the red planet to drill for signs of life, due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
ESA Director-General Josef Aschbacher tweeted on Tuesday that because the war and resulting sanctions “continue to prevail”, the agency would “officially terminate” ties with Russia on ExoMars and its landing platform.
The firebrand head of Russian space agency Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin issued an angry response.
“Has the head of the European Space Agency thought about the work of thousands of scientists and engineers in Europe and Russia which has been ended by this decision? Is he prepared to answer for sabotaging a joint Mars mission?” Rogozin said on Telegram.
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Invades Europe...didn’t expect consequences.
When Musk sends up a Space X vehicle to bring back everyone BUT the Russians-—that should be fun.
Russia is pissed because they can’t complete the mission without the EU.
They are just children.
They already ripped the iss up and down, told everyone they will be leaving it and building their own station with china and others.
Why they’d want to work with europe on mars anyways is silly, they don’t need them, they are Russia, they can do it with their other socialist buddy comrades.
“When Musk sends up a Space X vehicle to bring back everyone BUT the Russians-—that should be fun.”
That would never happen. As much as I oppose Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, NO ONE should suggest or support stranding cosmonauts or astronauts in space.
Franklin is the one who really discovered DNA, not Watson and Crick.
The ESA had previously suspended ties on the joint ExoMars mission, which had planned to use Russian rockets to put Europe’s Rosalind Franklin rover on the red planet…
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This will likely backfire like the cutting off of Russian gas to Europe.
All it means is that Russia will be working with the Chinese on a Mars mission.
“Can the EU even complete the mission without Russia?”
The EU clearly doesn’t care one way or the other. But Russia does.
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