The Director-General of the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, warned that the International Space Station could deviate from its orbit out of control if it affected the Earth. new penalties To cooperate with Russia in this field, according to what Western media reported on a series of tweets he wrote, and also broadcast a video on his channel on the Telegram website on Thursday evening.
In summary, 58-year-old Dmitry Rogozin explained that cooperation is necessary for the station’s safe operation, “and if the Americans refuse further cooperation, who will save the International Space Station from uncontrolled fall from orbit and crash into American or European soil?” It is a veiled threat in which he stated that the 500-ton station does not pass over Russian territory, to which former US astronaut Garrett Reisman responded on Friday as a spokesperson from “NASA” on the matter.
Raisman told CNN that the US space agency will continue to cooperate with Russia in relation to the station’s work, “and we do not believe the impact of the new sanctions on this partnership and cooperation, and we will continue to work with our partners, including “Roscosmos” to ensure the safe operation of the station,” stressing that the new sanctions will not include Monitoring exports of what is required for Russian-American cooperation in the field of civil space.
Nor are there planned changes to NASA’s support for operations in orbit, as he put it.
Enemies on Earth Friends in Space
And the chief engineer of Energia, which is leading the development of the Russian section of the station known by the letters ISS for short, is the 75-year-old former cosmonaut Vladimir Solovyov, warned last September that it may suffer from “irreparable failures due to outdated equipment and devices, and that 80 % of the aviation systems of its Russian division have expired, while the agency has discovered small cracks in them that may worsen over time,” he said.
However, a strange paradox has now occurred that has made enemies on Earth friends in space, as the United States and Russia are preparing to intensify their space cooperation more, according to what Al Arabiya.net has learned from the station program for this year, which coincides with their entry The worst confrontation in a long time due to the war in Ukraine.
Roscosmos Director General, NASA spokesperson, and photo of the International Space Station
The International Space Station currently carries a crew of 7 astronauts, 4 Americans, two Russians and a German, while two NASA astronauts are concluding their training with its counterpart the Russian Agency, while 3 Russian astronauts are training with NASA in Texas, and 5 of them are preparing for training next month in Russia. .