On Tuesday, Russia’s deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin announced that the country would not cooperate with the US on the International Space Station (ISS) after 2020 despite the fact that the US was hoping to use the ISS until 2024. Rogozin also said that Russia would no longer sell its NK-33 and RD-180 rocket engines to the US for military purposes. RD-180 rocket engines are used in the United States’ Atlas V launch vehicle for a variety of cargoes including US military payloads.
Finally, Rogozin said that the US will have to cease operations of its 11 GPS sites within the country on June 1 unless the two nations can come to an agreement before then. After the June 1 deadline, Moscow says it will permit three months of negotiations, but if there’s no agreement, the 11 stations “will be permanently terminated,” the Russian government-funded site RT wrote.
Megan Geuss, reporting at Ars Technica.
man, this is not looking good.
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