US Restrictions Hurt Russian Space Defense and Commercial Projects

Start einer Proton-K, die das Modul Swesda zur Internationalen Raumstation ISS befördert (Juli 2000)
public domain because it was solely created by NASA

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In response to Russia’s involvement in the Ukrainian crisis, the United States has tightened its export controls, and this has seriously hurt important Russian space projects. US authorities are apparently denying export licenses that allow European and other foreign communications satellites containing US components to be launched into space by Russian rockets. This decision has effectively pushed the Russian Federation out of the highly prestigious (though limited) international space launch market. In 2014, the country’s space agency, Roscosmos, was planning 38 space launches, with 10 of them contracted to carry foreign payloads. Commercial space launches of foreign satellites have been bringing Russia some $700–800 million a year. This additional income is important both economically and psychologically—a symbolic vestige of Russia still being a high-tech powerhouse. If Russia is pushed out of the commercial satellite launch marketplace by US sanctions, even temporarily, it would be difficult to ever come back fully, as cheaper Chinese and private US space launchers pick up its market share.
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Russia has been selling to the US rocket engines that are attached to space boosters like the Atlas, produced jointly by Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The Atlas rocket is used to launch military US satellites; so it seems, under Rogozin’s terms, the export of RD-180 engines it uses will be terminated and the Atlas may be phased out of use. But Russia has already shipped to the United States a sizable supply of RD-180s—enough to last two years, while alternative US-made engines or privately produced launchers are being introduced. Russia’s contract to sell the US 101 RD-180 rocket engines worth hundreds of millions of dollars may be lost.

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jamestown.org — interfax

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Anmerkung

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Noch am 14. April 2014 wurde berichtet, dass die NASA das Verbot auf Zusammenarbeit mit Russland mildert!
Es bleibt spannend, die Entwicklung insbesondere im Hinblick auf die Versorgungslage der ISS Raumstation weiter zu beobachten.

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Ihr Oeconomicus

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Geplante Raketen-Starts

Stand der Liste: 10. Mai 2014

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Quelle: wiki

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