Russia (bbabo.net), - In response to EU sanctions, Roskosmos suspends cooperation with European partners in organizing launches from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana.
“In response to EU sanctions against our enterprises, Roscosmos is suspending cooperation with European partners in organizing space launches from the Kourou space center and withdrawing its technical staff, including the consolidated launch crew, from French Guiana,” wrote Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin. in your telegram channel.
Now 87 citizens of the Russian Federation are at the cosmodrome in French Guiana. These are employees of the NPO named after S. A. Lavochkin, who were preparing the Fregat-MT upper stage for the upcoming launch, as well as employees of the Progress RCC (manufacturer of the Soyuz rockets) and the Center for the Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure Objects. At the moment, the issue of the departure of Russian employees is being worked out, TASS reports.
As is known, the EU has introduced strict financial and technological sectoral restrictions against 64 key structures of the Russian Federation, including the Progress RCC.
The EU severely restricted the access of these entities to the capital market and financial services, banned the provision of technical assistance to them and trade with them in military or dual-use products and technologies, as well as technologies and equipment for oil production in the polar latitudes and on the shelf. The EU also adopted an extensive list of high-tech products, in particular, communication systems, electronics, semiconductors, aviation and space components, prohibited from being supplied to Russia.
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The Guiana Space Center is a European spaceport near the city of Kourou in French Guiana (a department of France in South America). The Russian-European Soyuz project at the Guiana Space Center began in 2003 after a decision at the government level to launch vehicles from the European cosmodrome in French Guiana. As part of the decisions taken, a number of intergovernmental agreements were signed that laid the legal basis for signing contracts for the creation of ground infrastructure for the Soyuz launch complex, the manufacture and shipment of Soyuz-ST launch vehicles and Fregat upper stages to the Guiana Space Center. The first launch of the Soyuz-ST carrier rocket took place in October 2011.
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