No space launches without Russian engines

October, 28, at 18.22 on East coast time, as you know, USA Antares rocket exploded after just six seconds since it had been launched.

According to the available data, it was blown up deliberately, after it became clear that it would not have reached the orbit. Preliminary investigation revealed defects in the engines of the first stage. It was produced at Ukraine, at the plant of Yuzhmash, which is situated in Dnepropetrovsk.

The name Antares, owned by one of the brightest stars in the night sky, has fully justified itself. The resulting fireworks are worth of millions of dollars. No doubt, that was appreciated by the American taxpayers very much, while they observed a triumphant salute in real-time translation.

Though that was the successful failure of the NASA space program. The failure which had been deffinitely predicted and forseen.

The matter is that one of the points of sanctions against Russia was a ban on the purchase of engines for the U.S. space launch program.

The Russian side, both as a number of senior officials and experts of the space industry in the United States, warned the United States, saying that these restrictions are primarily destructive for America's program of space exploration.

But Washington chose to purchase the engines on the Ukrainian Yuzhmash. The result of the reckless actions of the American government was witnessed by the whole world.