Discovery of Venus in trouble, Russia will give chance to China by removing America?
The head of the Russian space agency said on Saturday that US sanctions on Russia would affect the joint space project. He said that the US cannot be part of Russia’s joint space project Venera-D to explore the planet Venus after US sanctions. He said Moscow would carry out the mission either alone or with the participation of China.
Venera-D is a previously planned joint space exploration project between Russia’s Roscosmos and the US space agency NASA to explore the planet Venus. After ordering a “special military operation” against Ukraine on Thursday, the US and its allies approved to block assets of four big Russian banks, impose export controls and sanctions oligarchs close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. has decided.
The sanctions would “weaken” Russia’s “space programme”, including its aerospace industry. “US participation in the project is impossible because of the sanctions,” he said. Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin, director general of the Russian state space agency, told state-run TASS news agency He was quoted as saying that Russia will carry out the mission alone or with the participation of China.
The head of the Russian space agency said on Friday that he had given instructions on Friday to begin talks with Beijing on mutual technical assistance for all space research missions.
On Friday, Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling on Moscow to halt its attack on Ukraine and withdraw all troops. India, China and the UAE abstained from voting on the resolution.
Roscosmos has suspended its cooperation with European partners on space launches from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, in response to EU sanctions following Russia’s military offensive against Ukraine and the French in response to EU sanctions. Has recalled its technical personnel from Guyana. There are currently 87 Russian nationals at the Kuro Cosmodrome. Work is being done to get them out.
The European Union has imposed tough financial and technical sanctions against 64 major Russian structures, including the Progress rocket and space centre. The head of Russia’s space agency has warned the US that several sanctions imposed on Moscow could “destroy our cooperation” on the International Space Center (ISS) and asked Washington whether it would send India and China “500 tonnes of cargo”. The structure wants to endanger with the apprehension of falling on them”.
Russia and the US are major participants in the ISS programme, which also includes several European countries such as Canada, Japan, France, Italy and Spain. After Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a “special military operation” against Ukraine on Thursday, the US and its allies decided to block assets of four big Russian banks, impose export controls and sanctions close to Putin Is.
