Expand / NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, talks with Roscosmos’ Dmitry Rogozin at 2019. (charge: Alexei Filippov / / TASS through Getty Images)
On Monday the US Commerce Department published a record of Russian and Chinese companies it states have military bonds. The listing designates 58 Chinese and 43 Russian firms because”military end customers” and requires exporters to get a license prior to selling products. Such licenses will probably not be issued.
“The Department acknowledges the value of using its partnerships with both US and international businesses to fight attempts by China and Russia to redirect US technologies due to their own unmanned military applications,” said Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in making the statement.
The list contains several distance businesses in China and Russia, such as the Progress Rocket Space Center in Samara, Russia. This business develops and produces the Soyuz rockets which have transported Russian and US astronauts to the International Space Station for the previous decade following the US space shuttle retired.
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