RD-180

2024: Last Russian-powered U.S. rocket launch RD-180

On July 30, 2024, the Atlas V rocket of the United Launch Alliance launched from the US Space Force base at Cape Canaveral in Florida. This is the last launch of a carrier with a Russian RD-180 engine in the interests of the US Department of Defense. Read more here.

2022: US supply cut-off

On March 3, 2022, the CEO of Roskosmos"" Dmitry Rogozin announced the cessation of supplies to the United States of Russian rocket engines used to launch military and reconnaissance satellites. We are talking about products produced by the Scientific and Production Association. Energomash

Let me remind you that somewhere since the mid-90s they went quite actively. These are, first of all, the RD-180 engines, on which the Atlas-5 rocket and the RD-181 engine, which is used by the first stage of the Antares missile, fly on the cruise engine, Rogozin said (quoted by RIA Novosti), adding that "let the United States fly on brooms."

Russia stops supplying rocket engines to the United States

As Rogozin clarified on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel, the Russian Federation refuses not only the supply of these rocket engines, but also the maintenance of the equipment already sold.

In addition, Roscosmos will not cooperate with Germany on joint experiments on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS), it will conduct them independently.

Rogozin also said that the funds saved on personnel from among the heads of Roscosmos enterprises will be directed to the creation of new rocket and space technology.

Restrictions on the supply of Russian rocket engines were a response to the sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union on the Russian space industry in February 2022. In particular, a ban was introduced on the export to Russia of goods for the space industry. In response, Roscosmos recalled its employees from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana and suspended Soyuz rocket launches from this site.

Our space program, of course, will be adjusted. First of all, priorities will be set. The priority here is the creation of spacecraft in the interests of both Roscosmos and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Rogozin said on March 3, 2022.[1]

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