Russia’s space chief is hopping mad over most recent US restrictions

Enlarge / NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, speaks with Roscosmos' Dmitry Rogozin in 2019. (credit: Alexei Filippov / TASS via Getty Images)

On Monday the US Commerce Department released a list of Chinese and Russian companies that it says have military ties. The list designates 58 Chinese and 43 Russian companies as "military end users" and requires exporters to obtain a license before selling them products. Such licenses are unlikely to be issued.

The Department recognizes the importance of leveraging its partnerships with US and global companies to combat efforts by China and Russia to divert US technology for their destabilizing military programs," said Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in making the announcement.

The list includes several space companies in China and Russia, including the Progress Rocket Space Center in Samara, Russia. This company develops and manufactures the Soyuz rockets that have carried Russian and US astronauts to the International Space Station for the last decade after the US space shuttle retired.

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