{"id":22283,"date":"2022-02-25T20:24:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T12:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/bidens-latest-russian-sanctions-aim-to-degrade-russias-space-program\/"},"modified":"2022-02-25T20:24:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T12:24:33","slug":"bidens-latest-russian-sanctions-aim-to-degrade-russias-space-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/bidens-latest-russian-sanctions-aim-to-degrade-russias-space-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s latest Russian sanctions aim to \u2018degrade Russia\u2019s space program\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While the continuation of spaceflight is hardly at the forefront of people\u2019s thoughts right now, given all that is going on in Ukraine, some have wondered how the US and Russia\u2019s cooperation on the Internation Space Station, with NASA Astronauts flying on the Russian Soyuz capsule and Cosmonauts set to fly on SpaceX\u2019s Dragon Capsule, will continue.<\/p>\n

While Roscosmos and NASA have had conflicts before, the agencies tend to put space exploration and science first, leaving most conflicts on the ground. Now, President Biden has announced increased economic sanctions against Russia that he says will impact the country\u2019s space program.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ll cut off more than half of Russia\u2019s high-tech imports. It\u2019ll strike a blow to their ability to modernize their military, it\u2019ll degrade their aerospace industry \u2013 including their space program, it\u2019ll hurt their ability to build ships, reducing their ability to compete economically.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While briefly addressing the space industry, he made no comment on NASA and Roscosmos\u2019 continued work on the space station. Exactly how the import cutoffs will affect the space program, and which specific aspects of the space program will be most affected, has not been detailed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the continuation of spaceflight is hardly at the forefront of people\u2019s thoughts right now, given all that is going on in Ukraine, some have wondered how the US and Russia\u2019s cooperation on the Internation Space Station, with NASA Astronauts flying on the Russian Soyuz capsule and Cosmonauts set to fly on SpaceX\u2019s Dragon Capsule, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}