Posted on 08/06/2024 6:24:55 AM PDT by Salman
Russia's space agency on Monday said the break with the West following Russia's offensive in Ukraine had cost it nearly 180 billion rubles ($2.1 billion). As part of sanctions against Moscow following the start of Russia's campaign, Western countries broke off partnerships with Roscosmos in the space sector.
"The termination of contracts by unfriendly countries cost Roscosmos 180 billion rubles," Andrei Yelchaninov, deputy head of the Roscosmos agency, was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying.
One of the collaborations what was halted was the cooperation on a planned joint mission to explore Mars with the European Space Agency.
Roscosmos also suspended launches of its Soyuz rockets from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.
Yelchaninov said the agency planned to make up for the lost revenues by doing more business with countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
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That is also unlike NASA.
NASA is so yesterday. SpaceX and other commercial space faring companies will get it done.
Looks like those western “pogo sticks” are eating roscosmos’ lunch.
BWAHAHAHahahahahaha!
In case SpaceX is unavailable, now Russia knows what to charge to send up a Soyuz mission to reduce the stranded Boeing passengers
Apparently it is also expected to be able to send and recover cosmonauts/astronauts to the ISS.
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