Moscow Cries Foul as U.S. Bans Use of Russian Rockets

[Rogue Valley]

Moscow Cries Foul as U.S. Bans Use of Russian Rockets | The Moscow Times

5/31/19
The U.S. Department of Defense will ban space launch and satellite cooperation with Russia in 2023, the Pentagon said, drawing ire from Russia’s space agency. The U.S. has been trying to cut reliance on Russian-made rocket engines, eyeing 2022 as the latest deadline, amid strained relations. Last year, Russia’s top defense and space industry official said Russian-made spaceships would stop sending American astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) after April 2019. New Department of Defense rules list Russia alongside China, North Korea, Iran, Sudan and Syria as countries where satellite and launch vehicle contracts will be banned on Dec. 31, 2022, a Pentagon notice on the government Federal Register says.

The Pentagon’s defense acquisition regulations system says the prohibition is motivated by an “unacceptable cybersecurity risk.” The move affects fewer than 86 “small entities” previously awarded contracts with commercial satellite services. Russia’s federal space agency Roscosmos condemned the U.S. move as “unfair competition in the international space services market.” “This is effectively an attempt to deprive American manufacturers of a chance to work with the Russian rocket and space industry and artificially limit the use of Russian launch vehicles internationally,” Roscosmos said Thursday.

The Pentagon has already begun supply flights to the ISS using a private spaceflight contractor. Interestingly, these US ISS supply rockets use Ukrainian made thruster engines to power the vehicle into orbit.

 

[OrphanSlug]

Who cares what Russia thinks?

 

[Rogue Valley]

Who cares what Russia thinks?

Certainly not I. But plenty in the world take care. There are folks on this very board that support and defend the Kremlin.

 

[beefheart]

Moscow Cries Foul as U.S. Bans Use of Russian Rockets | The Moscow Times

The Pentagon has already begun supply flights to the ISS using a private spaceflight contractor. Interestingly, these US ISS supply rockets use Ukrainian made thruster engines to power the vehicle into orbit.

That is only with one rocket, the Antares from Orbital which is now part of Northrup. It uses a modified Kuznetzov rocket, which was originally designed for the Soviet N1 rocket which was to put men on the moon, but it was a huge failure, with all four unmanned launches failing.


SpaceX makes all of its own rockets for the Falcon 9 and the Heavy.

 

[Rogue Valley]

That is only with one rocket, the Antares from Orbital which is now part of Northrup. It uses a modified Kuznetzov rocket, which was originally designed for the Soviet N1 rocket which was to put men on the moon, but it was a huge failure, with all four unmanned launches failing.


SpaceX makes all of its own rockets for the Falcon 9 and the Heavy.

I never stated it was used by all private space companies did I?

The Northrup-Yuzhnoye/Yuzhmash Antares rocket has indeed resupplied the ISS from the NASA Flight Facility at Wallops Island, VA.

 

[Litwin]

Moscow Cries Foul as U.S. Bans Use of Russian Rockets | The Moscow Times

The Pentagon has already begun supply flights to the ISS using a private spaceflight contractor. Interestingly, these US ISS supply rockets use Ukrainian made thruster engines to power the vehicle into orbit.