US President Joe Biden announced a new wave of sanctions against Russia on Thursday.
The goal is to cut off Russia's economic ties to the rest of the world, starve its military, and put its space industry on ice.
Biden said during an announcement on Thursday that they estimate that we will cut off more than half of Russia's high-tech imports.
The Biden administration and NASA have a lot of bargaining power, not to mention US access to the International Space Station, a decades long collaboration between the two countries.
That is a new development. Since the Space Shuttle was retired, NASA has only relied on Russian-operated Soyuz to send astronauts to the orbital lab.
The picture changed in 2020 when the first NASA astronauts were sent to the station in the Crew Dragon capsule, the result of the space agency's Commercial Crew contract.
NASA's hand in navigating the current Russia crisis is immeasurably strengthened by the availability of Crew Dragon and its regular, reliable access to space.
Control of the International Space Station is the ultimate trump card for NASA and Russia right now, according to Berger.
Russia's invasion of a European nation will likely have consequences for its space program.
The head of Russia's space corporation made his stance clear.
He saidGlory to Russia on Monday.
On Monday, he tried to flip the script.
Russian and citizen of Russia, he is unhappy with the sometimes hostile US policy towards his country.
The US has relied on Russian-made rockets to reach their destinations. Europe's Arianespace has been leaning on Russian Soyuz rockets to deliver satellites into space, an effort to establish Europe's own version of gps.
Russia's invasion of the international space community remains to be seen.
Bill Nelson, a spokeswoman for NASA, told Ars Technica on Wednesday that the agency continues to work with other international partners to maintain safe and continuous International Space Station operations.
Russia's aggression is putting some serious pressure on that tenuous relationship. The country plans to launch its own space station over the next decade or so, having announced plans to abandon the International Space Station last year.
Where that leaves operations on the International Space Station is a mystery.
The picture may change rapidly as the Russian invasion goes on. All eyes are on NASA. They are in a better position thanks to the help of SpaceX.
NASA says everything is perfectly chill on the space station despite the war.
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