Russia will stop deliveries of rocket engines to the United States, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin announced Thursday. “In this situation, we can no longer provide the US with the best rocket engines in the world,” Rogozin said. “Let them fly on something else – their brooms.” Roscosmos will halt shipping RD-181 rocket engines to the U.S. and will not provide maintenance for the 24 engines that the U.S. currently owns. Sputnik notes that since the mid-1990s, 122 RD-180 engines for Atlas missiles have been delivered to the United States; 98 of them have been used.
Rogozin also announced that he had written to Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla, the head of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), announcing that Russia would cease conducting joint scientific experiments on the International Space Station, according to Sputnik. He said Germany had curtailed crucial joint space projects in a “hostile and destructive” action, including the shutdown of the German eROSITA wide-field telescope aboard the Russian observatory, which had led to the collapse of a unique scientific project to create a map of the entire sky in the Röntgen (X-ray) spectrum. “German colleagues who took such steps to politicize our relations will end up with nothing,” he said.
