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Crippled by war and sanctions, Russia now faces evidence that its already-struggling space program is falling apart. In the past three months alone, Roscosmos has scrambled to resolve two alarming ...
Russia's space chief Yuri Borisov has been ... sights at regulators from within the White House — putting the US space program on a very different trajectory.
Russia's departure from the space station comes as tensions are high between the two nations due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It is unclear how U.S.-Russian relations will be affected by the move.
Russia will pull out of the International Space Station project after 2024, the new director of the Russian space program said Tuesday, but no firm dates or plans were revealed and it was not ...
Russia's space program is declining thanks in part to sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine. That's according to leaked US intelligence, which also seemed to list Elon Musk's SpaceX as a factor.
It notes that “multiple factors have made the sustainable development of the Russian space program impossible.” The issues include “sanctions, an embargo on advanced industrial equipment ...
Despite its early success in the space race, Russia’s once-dominant space program has faced setbacks from corruption by Russian officials and contractors, and incidents like the coolant leaks.
But the Russian space program has stalled for years, plagued by sparse budgets. And that was before Vladimir Putin’s onslaught on Ukraine: Some of the space plans the country still had in the ...
Russia will withdraw from the International Space Station project after 2024 and will focus on deployment of its own space station, the head of the Russian space agency said Tuesday.
Russia’s space program is facing mounting economic hurdles. Sanctions against Russia are weighing on its space program and economy as a whole. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has also highlighted ...
Russia's space program has thrown its weight behind NASA's plans to destroy the International Space Station starting in 2030. In 2022, roughly five months after Russia invaded Ukraine, Borisov ...
Ars Technica mentions another symptom of the Russian space program’s doldrums. Recently, the Russians launched a rocket from the R-7 family of launch vehicles for the 2,000th time.