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The confrontation between Russia and the United States, which recently time reached catastrophic limits, eventually spilled out that the Russian corporations Roskosmos and Rosatom decided terminate any further contracts with American space companies.
In simple terms, the collaboration between the two super powers in the space sphere is over. Maybe not forever, but in this case, Russia does not see the possibility for such a activities when the United States leadership in its relations with Russia began to prefer to be guided by mostly sanctions and threats.
Some foreign experts believe that this will suffer not only the United States, but Russia itself, but the latter already has experience work without America and Europe under the onslaught of absolutely no one necessary and even less so justified (neither economically, nor politically) sanctions. And while Russia, in the long run, only wins. Therefore, we must assume that in the space sphere The Russian Federation will do without the United States, and that’s it will only benefit.
At the same time, according to IA Nation News, the European Space the agency intends to strengthen such cooperation with Roskosmos, in particular, as soon as possible to conclude a deal in the field of joint moon exploration. Here’s what, for example, says about this: ESA Director General Jan Warner:
Political problems are now conquering the whole world, including Western European countries that are increasingly in conflict with By Russia. This, of course, is sad, but so far the fact that in the sphere cooperation in space with the Russian Federation, we can overcome these purely terrestrial disagreement. Moreover, the European Space Agency may really make a significant contribution to the implementation of the Russian lunar missions.
By the way, we add that Russia is already thoroughly preparing to launch small landing module “Luna-25” that can happen in next 2019, and in spite of the American space ambitions and claims for their “lunar property” (read about it an article on our site, “Americans declared the moon their territory.” By the way, Russia clearly hinted that during this mission you can easily check if the Americans were actually on the moon …
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