invasion Ukraine creates a number of problems for Europein addition to the dependence of European countries on Russian gas, European Space Agency – ESA also depended on missiles Union for your special missions. Now the agency is looking for other solutions for its tasks and may eventually use the technology SpaceX.

Thanks to an interview given ReutersCEO ESA, Joseph Aschbacher, spoke about the decisions that will be made now that the Europeans will no longer have access to Russian missiles. Aschbacher notes that the agency is currently analysis using missiles supplied by Japan, India and company Elon Musk.

Among the options, the CEO names the solution SpaceX “This is the most up-to-date of them and certainly one of the standby releases we are looking at.” Currently ESA studies the technical compatibility of missiles of an American company.

Credits: ESA Disclosure

Aschbacher indicates that negotiations are still at an early stage and it may take time to prove, as it is not “like getting on a bus”. If the company’s technology is approved, he believes that its use This should just be a temporary solution..

The US has also stopped using Russian technology.

With the start of the invasion Ukrainealmost all clients who Russia possessing their own aerospace technologies, eventually distanced themselves from the country. Termination of the use of Russian equipment in missions ESA it was the invading country’s response to sanctions imposed by the European Union.

But apart from the countries of the Old Continent, United States also end up suffering from it. In March Russia also retaliated against US sanctions and suspended engine deliveries to USA. Now companies Northrop Grumman as well as Firefly Aerospace together they are working on the creation of completely domestic engines, trying to eliminate dependence on Russian technologies.

Source: Reuters, Gizmodo.

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