In the weeks since Vladimir Putin sent Russian troops storming into Ukraine, blowback from the invasion has erupted around the world—and off-world, too. Interplanetary voyages are among several space science collaborations delayed or doomed by the ongoi...
In the weeks since Vladimir Putin sent Russian troops storming into neighboring Ukraine, blowback from that invasion has erupted around the world—and off-world, too. As the crisis deepens, it is increasingly disrupting international cooperation on present and planned projects for space science and exploration, potentially jeopardizing their future.
There was, of course, much more international—and even interplanetary—ire to spread around. The ISS, assembled and crewed across decades through a politically sacrosanct U.S.-Russian partnership struck in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s fall, is kept aloft by regular boosts from Russian resupply missions. But Roscosmos has implied it could eliminate those boosts and decouple its modules from the space station, in theory allowing the rest of the ISS to crash and burn as its orbit decays.
NASA has a stake in ExoMars, too, having contributed to the mission’s parachute systems and scientific instrumentation, notes Colleen Hartman, former head of the space agency’s Sciences and Exploration Directorate and current director for space and aeronautics at Space Studies Board at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Rogozin, for his part, responded to advise Kelly that “perhaps the dementia and aggression that you have developed is a consequence of the overload and stress of four flights into space. I invite you to undergo an examination at the Brain Institute of our Federal Medical and Biological Agency.” Taking a look at the tomorrows to come, the most likely future in Logsdon’s mind is competing coalitions. “I think that’s the shape of the future,” he says. “The Russian [civil space] program is not in robust condition anyway. They really don’t have much going on. And in the possible Russian-Chinese partnership, it’s China that is going to be the leader, not Russia.”
Old Rules Do Not Apply The deleterious effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine on space science and exploration may only be the opening shots in a much more devastating battle, says Brian Harvey, a chronicler of global space activities and author of the recently published book European-Russian Space Cooperation: From de Gaulle to ExoMars .
“No ESA statement has been made on these yet, but granted what has happened so far, [Europe’s participation in the Luna missions] is unlikely to survive,” Harvey says. “Russia may well rebuild these spacecraft with its own equipment at the cost of a delay.”
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