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Hard to imagine the Russian space programme recovering from this war. Collaboration with NASA and the other non-China space agencies was the only way to keep t
by hunglee2 5y ago
Hard to imagine the Russian space programme recovering from this war.
Collaboration with NASA and the other non-China space agencies was the only way to keep the domestic Russian programme going. Going it alone in a future of North Korea-like economic / technological / political / financial isolation? I guess it is possible but hard to see it right now. Sad end for a country that has done so much for human space exploration
- mateo1 5y agoThey don't lack expertise but they will be lacking money and access to some specialised components and assemblies in the future. That said I doubt they're going to abandon their space program. I guess their launch platforms will remain stagnant and focus R&D money on things that are vital for them, like anything related to the new nuclear weapons race.
- justin66 5y ago> Hard to imagine the Russian space programme recovering from this war. The Russian space program never recovered from the fall of the Soviet Union. The sanctions and international outrage surrounding the Ukraine invasion, combined with the development of less expensive launch options that relieved everyone’s reliance on the Soyuz launch platform, mean everyone can stop propping the whole thing up.
- antifa 5y agoOne advantage of propping it up is so that they don't all leave to NK/Iran to build ICBMs.
- nine_k 5y agoI suppose that once the regime changes, the international support may very well return. Looking at the low-efficiency, high-cost warfare Russia is now waging I suspect that the regime is brittle, and lacks talented people willing to work for it. Some more capable forces may replace it relatively soon, naturally or violently.