Uncontrolled Deorbit News Today

New sanctions on russias space sector, dmitri rogozin threatened to allow the propulsion, the engines, allow them to turn off, not work. what that would do is potentially allow the space station to fall past to work. listen to the words that dmitri rogozin used, he said, quote, if you block cooperation with us, who will save the international space station from an uncontrolled deorbit and fall into the united states. the result is falling on india and china. do you want to threaten them with suc...

No bite from dmitri. russia is so invested in the space station. theyve spent so much money there. but also because he is known for making these very inflammatory remarks, especially on twitter. he did this, made similar threats the last time russia invaded ukraine in 2014 and nothing happen. back then he was the deputy prime minister of defense for russia and he was personally sanctioned by the u.s. government. now, he is the head of it. and yesterday when president biden announced the sanction...

Space agency said those new sanctions have the potential to destroy this cooperation and partnership between the u.s. and russia at the international space station. essentially the way this works is that the space station is divided into two sections, the u.s. section and the russia section. and you cant just pull them apart. the u.s. section provides all the electricity, and the russian module section provides all the propulsion, it has the engines that keeps the space station in the right orbi...