Roscosmos, Russia's space agency, will no longer cooperate with Germany on science experiments aboard the Russian side of the International Space Station (ISS), it said in a tweet Thursday.
The measures isolated Russian banks from financial networks, sent the ruble crashing and prompted dozens of companies to end their operation in Russia.
There is no carveout for Russian efforts in space. Last week, President Joe Biden said that the US sanctions"would degrade their [Russia's] aerospace industry, including their space program,"In a series of tweets following Biden's announcement, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin appeared to warn that the sanctions could have severe consequences for the ISS.
In an ominous message he noted that because of its orbit, the space station could crash into the US or Europe, but not on Russia,
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