The Dmitry Daily: Rogozin Again Threatens Existence of International Space Station if U.S. Remains Hostile to Russian Invasion of Ukraine
This report from the Kremlin-backed RT news channel has extensive comments from Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin, including a threat to end the International Space Station project. He said he didn’t expect it would happen because he beliefs the U.S. will cool down over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Rogozin has also been busy on Twitter. He tweeted a short video showing workers taping over national flags painted on a Soyuz 2-1.b rocket with 36 OneWeb satellites aboard that was erected on a launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome. The launch had been scheduled for Friday. On Thursday, London-based OneWeb announced it was suspending all launches of its spacecraft from Baikonur.
Translation via Twitter: The launchers at Baikonur decided that without the flags of some countries, our rocket would look more beautiful.
Other Recent Tweets
(Translated from Russian)
Rogozin Tweet
Roskosmos will not service the remaining 24 RD-180 engines in the US, and the RD-181 will stop deliveries.
Editor’s note: The RD-180 rocket engines power United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket. Rogozin was referring to Russian personnel who support the launches. Two RD-181 engines power the first stage of Northrop Grumman’s Antares booster that launches Cygnus resupply ships to the space station.
Rogozin Tweet
In the context of the announced sanctions, Roscosmos will reconsider its priorities and focus on achieving full import independence in matters of space instrumentation. The main design, technological and financial resources released from joint ventures with the US and the EU international research projects, will now be directed to the creation of space systems exclusively for defense and dual purposes.
Roscosmos Tweet
The State Corporation will not cooperate with Germany on joint experiments on the Russian segment of the ISS. Roskosmos will conduct them independently.
Russian space program will be adjusted against the backdrop of sanctions, the priority will be the creation of satellites in the interests of defense.
15 responses to “The Dmitry Daily: Rogozin Again Threatens Existence of International Space Station if U.S. Remains Hostile to Russian Invasion of Ukraine”
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Rogozin doesn’t have the capability of ending ISS, just of ending Russian participation on ISS. To that, I say, “Go ahead – make my day.” The rest is just a preview of coming attractions – to wit, that the Russian space program will soon retrench to being an entirely military one.
One without any humans in space, unless they team up with China or India. BTW anyone notice just how India is MIA when it comes to the invasion…
The Russians have already teamed up with China – after a fashion. India, I suspect, has been silent for the same reason the ROK has – both still have irons in the fire with Russia that they would just as soon see continue to heat up – at least for now. Going forward, I suspect both to quietly unwind their Russia connections and dependencies with all deliberate speed.
A threat of sanctions for dealing with Russia, or of stopping military sales, should speed them both up. The same with Saudi Arabia and other Mideast nations who would be part of Iraq if the U.S. not had stepped in. They need to help by not only supporting the U.S. but providing Europe with the oil needed to freeze Russia out of global markets for oil. A simple call indicating that if the war in Ukraine goes on the western military protecting them might need to be deployed to Europe should move them along.
Saudi, in particular, will be all-in on anything that damages Russia. Russia has been backing Saudi’s opposition in Yemen along with Iran.
India is stuck between a rock and a hard place, they are heavily dependant on Russia for support and parts for a lot of their military equipment, without which it will soon cease working leaving them exposed on one side to the Chinese and on the other to the Chinese supported Pakistanis. They are going all out to bring as much equipment supply in country but that takes time and you can’t just start producing advanced combat aircraft over night! Even if they could afford to replace all the Russian kit with US, from their point of view that just replaces one dependency with another. The US sees them as a useful future ally to help counter Ballance China so will turn a strategic blind eye.
Yep, that about sums it up. India will, without much doubt, do what it can to advance its de-Russia-dependency efforts, but, in the short term, it will do what it has to in its own best interests.
Technically, Russia does have capability of ending ISS: System A-235 PL-19 Nudol and probably a few other options.
One would just hope that even as nuts as they are, nothing like that is in the cards
Fair point, though Rogozin could not order such a thing. Given how badly the one guy who could order such a thing has misjudged the blowback he would get for invading Ukraine, it seems unlikely he would do something that would both be certain to start a war with NATO and would garner him no new territory or anything else for his trouble.
That’s okay. The ISS represents a political situation that doesn’t exist anymore, and we have other options on the horizon. Axiom, Starlab, Orbital Reef, Starship can all replace it. Meanwhile, Russia has…?
Rogozin is just like his master, Putin, a total piece of dogsh*t.
Rogozin is Putin in clown makeup
Finally, the West will cease to cooperate with these Russian criminals in space.
Where ISS is concerned, that is still TBD. Nearly everything else, though, already seems pretty much toast.
I wrote BIden to suggest he ban RUssian rocket engines. Rogozin beat him to it. I said that Grumman-Northop could use its’ own srm. BUT then realized they would not need the Ukraine Ist stage as a srb is its own body. I then suggested using AR-1 to replace the Russian engine. SInce they would not buy Russian engines, this would pay for most of the cost as AR-1 may cost more. They sent me an e-mail saying they are working on a suitable reply.