Rogozin’s Tweets, Reports Republic, Nothing implicit, and a little ‘arrogant: Biden said the new sanctions would affect the Russian space program. OK. The details still need to be understood. “Do you want to destroy our cooperation in ISS? Or do you want to manage the ISS yourself? Explain to him (President Biden) that the correction of the station’s orbit is made exclusively by cargo ship engines to avoid dangerous collisions with space debris that your skilled merchants have polluted near Earth’s orbit. Progress MS. If you stop cooperating with us, who will save the ISS from falling out of uncontrolled orbit into the US or Europe? ”, That tweet reads poisonously.
While some space debris may have to be avoided, the space station uses Progress’ engines, Russian cargo ships attached to the orbiting laboratory. Without them, the impact of space debris could endanger the settlement of Americans, Russians and Europeans. At the moment the NSS is occupied by NASA astronauts Raja Sari, Thomas Marshburn, Kyla Barron and Mark Vande Hey, two Russians, Anton Schaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, and a European ESA, German Matthias Maurer.
