Technobarbarian wrote:
>
> MOSCOW, March 3 (Reuters) - Russia has decided to stop supplying
> rocket engines to the United States in retaliation for its sanctions
> against Russia over Ukraine, Dmitry Rogozin, head of the state space
> agency Roscosmos, said on Thursday.
>
> "In a situation like this we can't supply the United States with our
> world's best rocket engines. Let them fly on something else, their
> broomsticks, I don't know what," Rogozin said on state Russian
> television.
>
> According to Rogozin, Russia has delivered a total of 122 RD-180
> engines to the U.S. since 1990s, of which 98 have been used to power
> Atlas launch vehicles.
>
> Roscosmos will also stop servicing rocket engines it had previously
> delivered to the U.S., Rogozin said, adding that the U.S. still had 24
> engines that would now be left without Russian technical assistance."
>
> https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-halts-deliveries-rocket-engines-us-2022-03-03/?utm_source=reddit.com

Good. Lazyass ULA - or some American company - should be making their
own engines anyway. Maybe this will get them more off their ass. And
you'd think - after already using 98 of them - they'd know how to work
on them by now.

--
bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.

On 2022-03-03 21:37:16 +0000, bfh said:

> Technobarbarian wrote:
>>
>> MOSCOW, March 3 (Reuters) - Russia has decided to stop supplying rocket
>> engines to the United States in retaliation for its sanctions against
>> Russia over Ukraine, Dmitry Rogozin, head of the state space agency
>> Roscosmos, said on Thursday.
>>
>> "In a situation like this we can't supply the United States with our
>> world's best rocket engines. Let them fly on something else, their
>> broomsticks, I don't know what," Rogozin said on state Russian
>> television.
>>
>> According to Rogozin, Russia has delivered a total of 122 RD-180
>> engines to the U.S. since 1990s, of which 98 have been used to power
>> Atlas launch vehicles.
>>
>> Roscosmos will also stop servicing rocket engines it had previously
>> delivered to the U.S., Rogozin said, adding that the U.S. still had 24
>> engines that would now be left without Russian technical assistance."
>>
>> https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-halts-deliveries-rocket-engines-us-2022-03-03/?utm_source=reddit.com
>>
>
> Good. Lazyass ULA - or some American company - should be making their
> own engines anyway. Maybe this will get them more off their ass. And
> you'd think - after already using 98 of them - they'd know how to work
> on them by now.

This engine is used on the Altas-V(ULA), which was supposed to be
replaced by Blue Origin BE4 engine, which, like the SLS is years behind
schedule and over budget