American magazine: The United States accused Russia of a shortage of launch vehicles after refusing to supply rocket engines

Russia's withdrawal from the world market of commercial space launches after the start of the Russian military special operation created a shortage of launch vehicles, especially American companies suffer from this. SpaceX's attempt to take on the load of launching spacecraft into orbit by doubling the number of Falcon 9 rocket launches has so far been unsuccessful.

US companies involved in the space industry have complained about the lack of launch vehicles, as well as rocket engines used to launch satellites and other spacecraft into orbit. The thing is that the Americans plan within three years, starting next year, to put into orbit a large number of satellites of the Amazon Kuiper constellation, which should provide broadband Internet services. Yes, the United States does not have the capacity for this.

According to US representatives, Russia is to blame for everything, having left the market for commercial space launches, as well as banning the supply of rocket engines to American companies. This statement was made by the executive director of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Tony Bruno, on whose missiles the Russian RD-180s were installed. Now there are no engines, and the development of the widely advertised BE-4 has not been completed, it continues to pass qualification tests.

Now, for the first time in 30 years, there is a global shortage of launch capacity (...) the situation with the shortage of missiles has already begun and will last for about ten years

- he added.

Meanwhile, according to SpaceNews, Elon Musk's SpaceX company has announced its readiness to increase the number of its launches from 100 to 200 per year in order to cover the shortage of space launches, but whether other companies will do this is not known. So far, no one has canceled the competition.

Comments

[Nexcom]

Again, Russia is to blame .... Yes, pen dos nya has completely unbelted.
So they are trying to fill up our economy in any way, and we must sell engines to them.

[Reptiloid]

Is this news? It's been known for a long time

the cat abandoned the kittens --- it's Putin's fault!

And as my grandmother said (while she was alive) ---

mad dog biting the hand of the feeder

[Infinity]

Quote: Nexcom

and we have to sell engines to them

the whole joke is that we are no longer supplying: they themselves refused to renew contracts in September 2021, and in the spring of last year, supplies were completely stopped. And ULA is preparing for the 1st flight in May of the Vulcan launch vehicle, which will replace the Atlas V with the RD-180 on the first stage (yes, if anyone didn’t know, the engines were purchased not by NASA, but by ULA and Northrop Grumman (more precisely, the company Orbital OTK absorbed by it )).
All the whining about SpaceX, which only has its own engines and which has taken almost all commercial contracts, and even part of the government (NASA + military), although in the past ULA almost always received them. SpaceX launched 2022 launch vehicles in 61 (60 Falcon 9 + 1 Falcon Heavy, all successful). ULA is only 9 (see illustration). SpaceX wants 100 launches this year, with the first 18 already completed. ULA never dreamed of such a thing. At the same time, the market is growing, there is demand, and ULA simply has no carriers. More precisely, there are, but they are very expensive, and they cannot be "made like sausages", that is, in the same quantity as the Falcon 9.

[Mikhail Krivopalov]

Well, we continue to sell other resources. Ammonia for example.

[Maz]

Our carriers, we want to do what we do under sanctions. Fly in balloons into space.

[seregatara1969]

Chinese balloons - and he flew to Moscow! low!

[Aleks354]

One has already stated that you will launch on trampolines.

[isv000]

Quote: Alex354

One has already stated that you will launch on trampolines.

The seer, however!

[Saburov_Alexander53]

Our carriers, we want to do what we do under sanctions.
They are not "ours" ... They were made to order from the USA and all rights to the engines belonged to them. The Russian Federation did not have the right to sell them to others and even use them in their own interests. In the course of production, several patented American modifications were introduced into the RD-180, which made them even more "not ours". Ours was the RD-170, which was cut in half and made the RD-180, winning the tender announced by the United States.

[paul3390]

From Wiki .. I understand that the source is so-so, but still ..

At the same time, despite numerous rumors circulating in the Internet media and blogs[5][6], the patent rights to the design of the engine belonged to NPO Energomash[7][8][9] until October 2019 (the validity of the US patent is 20 years[10]); at the end of 2018, all engine production is concentrated in Russia[11]

[Saburov_Alexander53]

at the end of 2018, all engine production is concentrated in Russia[11] It was originally on our territory with American details. After fulfilling the contract, we tried to make the RD-180 without American parts, but did not return to domestic components twenty years ago. We tried to make the RD-180 on our own, but have not yet found buyers for this engine. During this time, we have already made other engines and much better. I'm just talking about this, that you should not worship the RD-180 with its special history and our commercial blunders in the era of the collapse of the USSR.

[Saburov_Alexander53]

patent rights for the design of the engine belonged to NPO Energomash [
Who argues? But the legal rights to buy / sell the RD-180 according to the tender belonged to the Americans. I repeat, Russia had no right not only to sell it to anyone except the United States, but even to use it for its own purposes. The contract ended, they got the right, but without American components. But there are no buyers...

[PROXOR]

The topic of communication with the Anglo-Saxons on a legal basis can be flushed down the toilet. And they were the ones who buried her. Our engine is 100%.

[Thorvlobnor IV]

Yes, at least 200. What will you put it on? Unless on a pedestal in a museum, because it's a beautiful thing.

[Rustic i ......]

Well, since lawyers rule the manufacture of engines, then let them launch rockets into space on lawyers.

[pin_code]

The rights belong to them on the basis of what??

[akropin]

It is quite possible to talk about property rights in other times, but Nord Stream has reset everything.

[Denis812]

Yes? And the 300 billion dollars frozen by the West? They are like ours. But they are not given to us. Why on earth should we give engines to the West? :)

[Saburov_Alexander53]

Why on earth should we give engines to the West? :) Nobody gives them away and never gave them away, but they sold them at an agreed price, which they had to gnaw out every time with a new batch. But we were bound by a contract and could not independently set the price, only through long negotiations and compromise.

[Mikhail Krivopalov]

And who was responsible for the fact that, with a clear brewing confrontation with the West / NATO, our little egg was in their nightstand? Just a few years ago, the GDP urged businessmen to withdraw money from there, but what didn’t the government take away? There are few examples with Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yugoslavia, when the West took their money. And the main thing is that no one is responsible for this, as if it were a natural disaster, well, we lost several hundred billion and okay, this is for the people "there is no money, but you hold on"

[Vyacheslav Ermolaev]

You need to be able to lie so as not to be caught. Remember, in the United States, the patent for this engine belonged only to Energomash, and it had already expired in 2019. Another point is that Pratt & Whitney has the sole right to supply this engine and the right to manufacture in the United States until 2030. No one forbids Russia to supply an engine in a friend of the country and produce it.

[Saburov_Alexander53]

You need to be able to lie so as not to be caught
(Vyacheslav Ermolaev, I even gave you a plus for insulting me. You should carefully read my comments to understand that I am saying exactly what you say. But we have the right to supply RD-180 to other countries only now , at the end of the contract, but not before.

[Sebastian Aristarkhovich Pereira]

And what about our gold-currency dough in Western banks?! And what about the prospects for their development and transfer to Ukraine?!
But with the "patented American modifications" the garbage really came out .... so embarrassing, oh, how embarrassing we are !!!!! Forgive us American astronauts and NASA....we won't do that again!

[ermak124.0]

what does it matter now?

[Consultant]

It matters as much now as it did then.

[Saburov_Alexander53]

I see the dynamics - / + under my very first comment, when, after a jingoistic frenzy with solid "minuses", people begin to delve into, read the following comments and assimilate the facts of history with the RD-180. Love for the Motherland will not suffer if you learn a little more than they say on TV.

[fif21]

Quote: Maz

Fly in balloons into space.

The United States has already polluted the Earth's low orbit. Therefore, it is necessary to recognize Internet satellites as dangerous garbage that poses a threat to space flights and to sharply limit (by introducing quotas) the launch of low-orbit satellite constellations. In case of refusal to negotiate , the satellites will be destroyed .

[fa2998]

Quote: Maz

Our carriers, we want to do what we do under sanctions. Fly in balloons into space.

Another "hooray-article" - without us there is no way! Russian engines were extremely rarely used by the Americans (recently), on separate carriers. They did not carry a special share in the "American" launches. and without us.

[Consultant]

They were used a lot, in the first couple they didn’t even have an alternative! And right now, of course, they have already developed several of their own engines, and their new spacecraft, when a lot of technology has been transferred to the Americans. And under whose administration of the Russian Federation did all this happen?

[nikolai711]

On a trampoline, trampoline. Rogozin will not let you lie. .

[dmi.pris1]

It's like Hitler would accuse the USSR during the war of disrupting the supply of raw materials ..

[Saburov_Alexander53]

It's like Hitler would accuse the USSR during the war of disrupting the supply of raw materials ..
And we didn’t tear them down ... trains were going to Germany when we were already bombed on June 22 ... And about the “complaint” from the United States about the lack of RD-180, it seems to me that this is a free interpretation of our author of the article. There was a common statement of fact that with the abandonment of the RD-180, they had a shortage of engines for individual programs.

[Consultant]

Quote: Saburov_Alexander53

And we didn’t rip them off ... trains went to Germany, when we were already bombed on June 22 ...

But Germany, on the eve of the attack, sent its goods to the USSR! Don't you forget that Germany carried out a treacherous attack on the USSR without declaring war!

[Mikhail Krivopalov]

Only, unlike the USSR, the Russian Federation supplies "NATO-Hitler" with various raw materials.

[Uprun]

Sanctions are a double-edged sword. Then you can according to GDP - please shave.

[rusich]

Americans, ask the panheads. They know how to jump. The trampoline will launch satellites

[pin_code]

There are giant slingshots for launching satellites.

[Lech from Android.]

I don't care what they say and think in the USA ... our country should take care of its interests, and not drag chestnuts out of the fire for Americans.
The United States, as always, wants to enter Paradise on someone else's hump.

[Saburov_Alexander53]

our country should take care of its own interests, and not drag chestnuts out of the fire for Americans. Your truth!!! In order to win the American tender for such engines, we dropped the price to disgrace and won ..... And then we bit our elbows when their production became more expensive than cost, but the contract had to be executed at a loss. And the United States had all the rights to the RD-180, that's how we know how to "bend the pin ... owls." After the completion of deliveries under the contract, they set their own price, but the USA bought only 4 pcs. and Musk offered to make his own...

[Sergey Dvornikov]

Putin sells energy resources and weapons with such a deping - to my own detriment - I compensate for this by selling gas, gasoline and diesel fuel on the domestic market - they "forcing" ordinary Russians to inflict these "losses"!

[Disant]

Sergey Dvornikov (I)
Putin sells energy and weapons with such deping - to his own death

oh, why is he selling?

[bk316]

Putin is so daping sells energy and weapons -

deiping? Well, right eksperd!
Can you give here contractual wholesale prices in the domestic and foreign markets?

[Consultant]

Or maybe you will give somewhere open to Russians data on contract wholesale prices for the sale of our energy products on the foreign market??

[nellyjuri]

What about us? How will it be on what language?

[Leader_Barmaleev]

And what are we for? Like that
As usual - the text is too short ... And for that the spinal cord is long

[DymOk_v_dYmke]

long pattern

and informative.

[kill the fascist]

I'm waiting for some selyuk minister to make a statement that 404 is ready to replace Russia in the market for commercial space launches and in the production of rocket engines ... just throw in a penny and we'll get it right.

[Sergey Dvornikov]

Don't wait for mana from heaven! And go beat the fascist - as you say!

[dandy]

Come on, what engines, what are they talking about? Our economy is all in tatters, and in general, we, except for galoshes, did not produce anything ...

[Mikhail Krivopalov]

so about the fact that the USSR did not produce anything other than galoshes, these are the words of GDP, and not Western enemies. It’s true that, by releasing some galoshes, the USSR was the second economy in the world, will GDP explain in vain

[Volunteer Marek]

Yes, that's not the point! And, in how our leadership uses this unique chance! A chance to try, regain the status of the Great Space Power. To work for ourselves, and not for other countries that, with our help, have achieved significant success in space. But I'm afraid that our generation is unlikely to see it. Lost not only technology, but most importantly, personnel. Our generation is leaving, and the new one is not prepared. There are no grounds for optimism.

[Consultant]

Who is to blame for all this and with whom is it lost??...

[tralflot1832]

As there is no RD 180, the Americans had a supply! They only launched two missiles on our engines after Rogozin ordered our maintenance specialists to leave the USA.

[Blackmokona]

Quote: tralflot1832

Yes, that's not the point! And, in how our leadership uses this unique chance! A chance to try, regain the status of the Great Space Power. To work for ourselves, and not for other countries that, with our help, have achieved significant success in space. But I'm afraid that our generation is unlikely to see it. Lost not only technology, but most importantly, personnel. Our generation is leaving, and the new one is not prepared. There are no grounds for optimism.

They had already sold all Atlas-5 to Amazon for their supply when he came running with his Starlink counterpart. And Musk is their worst competitor, so they justify themselves to investors why all orders are now going to him.

[Alexander Rasmukhambetov]

Ragozin said, let them buy trampolines, again, you have to go to China to buy.

[Yulia Averina]

I would also beat the rest so that they would not point their hymers at the Donbass. When your own mind is not enough, you do not need to squeeze out.

[kot423]

Quote: Volunteer Marek

Our generation is leaving, and the new one is not prepared. There are no grounds for optimism.

Nonsense. If you look at the attempts of power (in a good way), then everything returns. .

[Consultant]

In my opinion, you put a dot instead of two dots.

[U-58]

The situation is somewhat absurd
The local hawks fought for a long time to ban the import of our RD. And, remember, they succeeded. But the same US Department of Defense achieved the lifting of the ban.
As it is heated, it has never happened before, and here it is again.
There is a shortage of media in some commercial programs.
Well, joke with them.
This situation is pouring water on Musk's mills.
And he will soon become even twice as rich.
This hype will die down soon.
Well, we need to move our space in the interests of our country, despite all sorts of NWOs.

[AB]

Deficit!? And this is under holy capitalism?! How is that...

[Stepych]

Something doubts about the exploration of the moon by the Americans overwhelm me more and more each time.
Since they don’t have their own powerful rocket engines, how did they fly there?
Where did the technical documentation and drawings of rocket engines go?
Where is the factory?
How can all this disappear without a trace?
Can their minutemen travel thousands of miles?
What engines are there?

[paul3390]

This has always amazed me. After all, the declared F-1 is a unique engine even in modern times. Type - the most powerful liquid-fuel single-chamber to this day. And - no development of the line, no heirs .. So - it doesn’t happen ..

[Stepych]

That's it, further development, the backlog should have remained.
We revived the production of Tu-160

[Saburov_Alexander53]

And - no development of the line, no heirs .. So - it doesn’t happen ..
Pavel, what will you say when they fly to the moon again? Experts say that there are no problems to create a rocket engine for a flight to the Moon, there is simply no such task and specific funding yet. And they bought the RD-180 from us for a ridiculous price for them, considering it cheaper than doing it themselves. Have they lost their competencies in space from this purchase, judge for yourself by the fact of scientific and commercial programs in comparison with us.

[paul3390]

What will they fly? On the F-1? They talk about the fact that a single-chamber dviglo with such characteristics is not possible even now, I’m silent about then ..

[donavi49]

Fly on SLS

The thrust of the first stage is already greater than that of Saturn. Therefore, there are just no problems here (well, except for financing, the price of a rocket that came out at the level of Saturn at current prices, an unfinished Orion, which will be finished for sure by next year, or not). If we are talking about the landing, then everything is still complicated there. The crushed budget, as for me, gave birth to a very, very overcomplicated stage1. We could stick the flag and selfie somehow easier (the main task of Artemis3), and the real work will begin with the deployment of the Gateway later.

The current scheme is the takeoff of the Starship Tanker, takeoff of the Lunar Starship, docking in orbit and refueling, a leisurely flight to the lunar orbit of the Lunar Starship and the landing of the Tanker to the base. SLS launch with Orion. Rapid flyby to lunar orbit. Docking with the lunar starship. Crew transition, undocking and landing of a huge ship. Works on the moon. Takeoff from the moon using methane propulsion rocket engines. Docking with Orion. The way home.

[Artem Prokhorov]

RN Energy also does not fly.
RS-25 with space shuttle closure is also not used anywhere.
Yes, and you do not use the heir to galoshes, you probably wear boots without covers.

[donavi49]

We are talking about the withdrawal of megagroups. Bezos needs a launch vehicle for 3200 satellites. And Musk does not want to take him even for a double price. Bezos' NewGlenn rocket is in manufacturing hell. And it's not clear when it will fly, if at all. There is a story like with a movie from Amazon - billions were poured in, and at the output there are records of anti-ratings.

Now there is 1 rocket that flies and on which you can put high-tech products from the United States (that is, all Chinese launch vehicles are banned) - Atlas5. The rest of the Atlas was bought by Bezos. But this is a drop - because 3200 satellites need to be launched.

Ariane 6 is delayed, according to the schedule, she was supposed to carry Bezos satellites this year, and now she flies this year at most, or maybe everything will leave on 24 (and satellites by 25).
The volcano is a new launch vehicle, but this is Bezos' main hope now. Flying in May. A contender for the victory of the methane race, if Terran-1 is not rocked (tomorrow is another launch attempt).

There will also be contracts with Neutron, Terran-R and other launch vehicles of the second wave from private traders, but they still need to be launched.

If we are talking about the Moon, then even Bezos will not be able to launch satellites for the Internet on SLS.

[Saburov_Alexander53]

Something doubts about the exploration of the moon by the Americans overwhelm me every time Stepan, doubt is a useful feeling. But where to put the facts? And all the "scrap metal" that the United States left on the Moon has already been repeatedly photographed from the orbit of the Moon by other countries, incl. China and India. And then, you can cheat with a flight once, but not all seven expeditions to the moon where one was unsuccessful, without a lunar landing.

[Negro]

Quote: Stepych

Something doubts about the exploration of the moon by the Americans overwhelm me more and more each time.

Oh well.

Quote: Stepych

Since they don’t have their own powerful rocket engines, how did they fly there?

In terms of? Shuttle boosters are 2 times more powerful, SLS is 2,5 times more powerful.

Quote: Stepych

Where did the technical documentation and drawings of rocket engines go?

They lie at the Aerojet plant, from time to time they surface in various projects, but only on paper. The engine is old, extremely low specific characteristics paid for the record power. Nobody needs this now. The 9 engines of the Falcon are more powerful than the old dinosaur, and at the same time, everything together is half as light.

Quote: Stepych

Where is the factory?

In Los Angeles. But it was going to be demolished 10 years ago.

Quote: Stepych

How can all this disappear without a trace?

No way. It didn't disappear.

Quote: Stepych

can their minutemen travel thousands of miles?

Yes, sure. Of were launched every three months until the current presidency.

Quote: Stepych

What engines are there?

Like Northrop Grumann now. What's the difference?

[Guran33 Sergey]

I don’t know where you get about the stored technical documentation for the Apollo - after the end of the flights under the Moon program, NASA officially announced the destruction of the documentation for the Apollo launch vehicle in connection with state security (in order to avoid theft, something like that, I read in "science and life "this version)

[Negro]

Quote: Guran33 Sergey

NASA, after the end of the flights under the Luna program, officially announced the destruction of the documentation for the Apollo launch vehicle in connection with state security

You have some weird theories. In 75, there was the last flight of Apollo (under the Soyuz-Apollo program). In the 81st, the Shuttle flew. There has been no need for Apollo since then.

[Saburov_Alexander53]

Negro, bravo! You are excellent at setting the brains of individual jingoistic patriots who have heard enough of all sorts of scumbags, wide-eyed people and, unfortunately, respected Pushkov, who also sinned with such obscurantism, about a fictitious landing on the moon.

[75 Sergey]

Here we are before their problems now like a light bulb!
On the contrary, the worse they are, the better we are.
When will we unsuccessfully put into orbit a couple of wagons with balls and scraps of reinforcement?!

[Tarasios]

on the one hand, selling popular engines to amers is profitable. But only in the short term. And in the far - it is to voluntarily give space to the same amers.

[Plate]

Yes, the Americans will take space without our engines. Falcon 9 flies on American engines, as well as the much more lifting Falcon Heavy.
But can we take space? In the United States, there is Musk with Falcons, which have already made it possible to launch several thousand Starlink satellites, which are now helping Ukrainians well. And we have?

[K-50]

American magazine: The United States accused Russia of a shortage of launch vehicles after refusing to supply rocket engines

So they imposed sanctions themselves!
So eat your "porridge"!

[Maks1995]

All nonsense.
This one seems to be dissatisfied.
Others, on the contrary, happily rub their hands. There is no competitor - prices for missiles will rise. Yes, how many launches per year do you have?

Rogozin and his colleagues made a strong present for them.

[Plate]

Elon Musk is rubbing his hands.
Seriously, are you still joking around about balloons and trampolines? Well, you can joke about anything: no one has the right to forbid it. But, in my opinion, it has been clear for several years now that the Americans will live perfectly well without the RD-180, and without our missiles in general.

[Sergey39]

Remind me where they use RD-180 engines and what stock of these engines did they have?

[donavi49]

Bezos bought 19 Atlas5-10 rockets. An article with a loud headline about Bezos, if anything.

[halov]

Fake throw. The United States has no shortage of launch vehicles. Thanks to Rogozin, we slept through the competition, and even before the special operation, Musk took away almost all commercial launches from us. And the fact that he can organize 200 launches a year means that he will fulfill any launch request. The link in the article "no one canceled the competition" - like that Musk will lose it to someone, is designed for those who do not know anything about the situation with the launch capabilities of Musk and Russia.

[-Igor-]

This is not entirely a throw-in, but a very free interpretation of the words of a competitor to SpaceX, who is trying to pull the budget blanket over himself. And the only drawback is that the demand for launches is higher than the supply. The launches themselves are perhaps not more frequent than before.

[Blackmokona]

Quote: -Igor-

This is not entirely a throw-in, but a very free interpretation of the words of a competitor to SpaceX, who is trying to pull the budget blanket over himself. And the only drawback is that the demand for launches is higher than the supply. The launches themselves are perhaps not more frequent than before.

Much more often, Falcons fly like minibuses.
For example, at the current moment in 2023
USA 22 launches (of which 19 Musk missiles)
China 11 launches
Russia 4 launches.

[Sergey39]

It is curious, but the Americans loudly shouted that they did not need Our RD-180s, we would make our own. It turns out, another shaking of the air, but where are the fire tests of your engine so loudly advertised?
They did the right thing by stopping commercial launches. All these commercial satellites are working against Us. With their own hands they helped create a powerful enemy satellite constellation!

[donavi49]

An article about the fact that Bezos needs to pull 3200 satellites into orbit. So far, it is not really clear how many satellites can be pushed into the Atlas and into the Volcano.

In any case, for Atlas, two peak years 2014-15 with 9 launches before and after less than 2 to 8 (mostly about 4-6). Bezos has already contracted 92 launches (Atlas, Arian6, NewGlenn, Vulcan) and this is not enough. So, even the rhythmic deliveries of the RD-180 would not have helped here.

[Deonnix]

A gas station pretending to be a country, they said.

[donavi49]

doubling the number of Falcon 9 rocket launches

19 launches since the beginning of the year and a likely target of 75-80 by the end of the year.

For example, Atlas5 (the one that is in short supply) - flew 3-5 times a year.

Amazon Kuiper, which should provide broadband internet services. Yes, the United States does not have the capacity for this.

So, it is necessary to write an article in a different way - Bezos was left with nothing or the everyday life of cosmic capitalism.

And yes, what does Musk have to do with it? Musk and Bezos are not friends now, and Bezos' Internet Falcons will not be lucky even for a double price. In general, everything is right here, Bezos turned his neat rocket concept into a mega long-term construction with terrible management, rolled everything into alterations of fundamental concepts (they changed the material just two years ago) and production hell. As a result, his Glenn, on paper, should have been flying for a year already, but in reality he will fly by the year 26, and that’s not a fact. But there’s really no way to buy a launch vehicle - Atlas5 bought the entire balance (10 missiles), Vulkan is the launch commercial customer (but Vulkan only flies in May and this is a new launch vehicle, delays are possible), and Arian6 who again left at 24 (well, rather, transfer from the beginning 23 to maybe 23).

[Alebedev]

If this is true, then one wonders how primitive Americans are.

[Il'nur]

left the market for commercial space launches, and also banned the supply of rocket engines to American companies.

So, what's the matter, urgently need to impose sanctions, you understand, they left the market and engines are not supplied without the permission of the "hegemon" ...
(sarcasm, if anything)

[Negro]

Hand face.

The note is completely sucked from the finger. The problem is purely local - Amazon needs to display a huge bunch of satellites in a short time (otherwise the license will be lost). To do this, he needs 83 launches. He bought launches of 3 rockets, but none of them fly yet. Two of them, Vulcan and New Glenn, do not fly through the fault of the same Bezos - his company builds engines for both of them (and Glenn is generally his entire rocket) and missed all the deadlines.

It remains to bow to the Mask, who alone can launch rockets in such numbers. But firstly, Bezos was tired of going to Musk, and secondly, Bezos is his competitor, so here Musk can also fail.

This story has nothing to do with Russia. Unless, in Medvedev's golden times, Proton could claim some piece of this pie - but Dmitry Anatolyevich has long been no longer the same. The current situation is a personal problem for Bezos, both on the supply side and on the demand side.

[isv000]

The United States accused Russia of a shortage of launch vehicles after refusing to supply rocket engines

Ride your horses, you fucking cowboys!

[polynet]

On a trampoline.

The text of your comment is too short and in the opinion of the site administration does not carry useful information.

[tolmachiev51]

The fact that we are guilty is understandable - it is incomprehensible, they flew to the moon, they "conquered" Mars, etc. but they don’t have their own rocket engines !!! - the question "was there a boy" !!!

[Uma palata]

So what's the problem? Amers also have Incredible Lunar Engines

[Plastmaster]

Quote: Nexcom

and we have to sell engines to them.

But if they just didn’t sell and didn’t make orbital stations for them .... Where would they be now? And how much by ourselves, we would have to fork out ... On our own ??????

[slipped]

"Russia's withdrawal from the world market for commercial space launches..." - that's nonsense, however. Russia has not left the world market anywhere. The US has banned our rockets from launching their spacecraft and is preventing its vassals from doing so through a ban from their chamber of commerce.

Russia last year launched two commercial spacecraft, Khayyam and Angosat-2. The South Korean CAS500-2 has been stuck with the launch so far. And any relations with ESA have been terminated, moreover, from their initiative.

And so next in line is the launch of new commercial spacecraft from countries friendly to us, both their development and ours for them on a turnkey basis.

[stas-xnumx]

Yah? Oh, what Russians are bad ....

[Mazunga]

it is necessary in response to accuse the United States that they lynch blacks, so to speak, but for BLM you will answer nonsense))) than this diplomacy is a fun toy

[sifgame]

Where there is a shortage, prices will definitely rise, some projects may fail.

[sdivt]

That's what's interesting. And indicative!
You read the article, everything seems to be clear ... then you think - but let me find the source?
Well, this magazine, where poor fellow Tony Bruno complains about bad Russia, which offended the Americans by not supplying engines. And what is interesting - all the notes about this unfortunate incident have some kind of cross-references! Peekaboo refers to Zen, Zen to classmates, VK to topwar and so on, in a circle (
The author, with all due respect, link to the source?
It's easy for you, right?
And then readers (ok, one reader)) have bad suspicions))

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This statement was made by the executive director of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Tony Bruno, on whose missiles the Russian RD-180s were installed.

The boy completely messed up.
Russia is not to blame for anything.
SpaceX made 2021 rocket launches in 31.
SpaceX made 2022 rocket launches in 61.
Growth by 30 launches in one year!

And the Russian RD-180s were installed on the Atlas-5.
A total of 93 were launched from 2002 to 2022, with a maximum of 9 per year (in 2014 and 2015).
And at the same time, they still have a stock of engines for at least 9 launches, for this and next year.

[Sergei N 58912062]

According to US representatives, Russia is to blame for everything ...

For the Americans, as always, Russia is to blame for everything.
And what delivery of engines can we talk about? They are trying to collapse our economy with sanctions, and we have to supply them with engines?