Moscow. June 15. INTERFAX-US sanctions restricting the supply of microelectronics have affected dozens of Russian spacecraft, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said.
"These are dozens of devices that have come under direct sanctions, "Rogozin said on the Rossiya 24 TV channel (VGTRK) on Tuesday.
Earlier, Rogozin said that Russia's continued participation in the ISS project after 2025 will be possible only if sanctions against Roscosmos enterprises are lifted.
"If the sanctions against Progress and TsNIIMash continue and are not disavowed in the near future, the issue of Russia's withdrawal from the ISS will be the responsibility of the American partners. Either we work together and then the sanctions should be lifted immediately, or we will not work together and then we will deploy our own station, "the head of Roscosmos said.
He also added that due to the sanctions, the launch of a number of satellites is disrupted.
"We have more than enough missiles, there is nothing to withdraw. Because there are spacecraft, almost assembled. In one, the other, and the third, there is simply not enough one specific chip, which is not given to us through sanctions in any way for purchase, " Rogozin said.
The head of the state corporation also noted that because of the sanctions, Roscosmos risks losing a new contract with the British company OneWeb to launch the second generation of communication satellites.
In April, the first deputy general director of the state corporation for Economics and Finance, Maxim Ovchinnikov, said in an interview with Interfax that one of the contractors of Roscosmos refused the contract for the launch of the satellite because of US sanctions.
Several Russian space enterprises, including the Samara RCC Progress and the Central Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (TsNIIMash), were included in the US sanctions lists. This means that now American companies will need to obtain special licenses to export, re-export or transfer products to the persons involved in the "black list".
