The boycott of Russian space technologies has led to the European Galileo satellite navigation project reaching a “dead end”. The publication writes about this La Nouvelle Tribune.
As noted in the article, space was previously viewed as an area where political conflicts had no impact. However, now this area has become an area of conflict. Thus, Europe had to turn to Elon Musk’s American SpaceX as it gave up on Russian Soyuz launch vehicles.
“In this context, the European Galileo project, which is of vital importance in terms of sovereignty in the field of geographical location, has come to a dead end due to the boycott of Russian technology and the unavailability of conventional launch vehicles,” the publication said.
According to the document, Europe’s Ariane rocket program is currently experiencing difficulties and the “temporary alliance” with SpaceX demonstrates Europe’s dependence on non-European players in this critical sector.
Before that, Roscosmos Director General Yuri Borisov statedHe said Russia would find ways out of the difficult situation caused by Western countries’ sanctions against the Russian rocket and space industry.
Russian scientists before was created Vodka-powered space engines.