Russia's top space official says the future of the International Space Station hangs in the balance after the US, the EU and Canadian space agencies missed a deadline for the lifting of sanctions on Russian enterprises and hardware.
The head of Russia's Roscosmos state agency told reporters on Saturday morning that the agency was preparing a report on the prospects of international co-operation at the station, to be presented to federal authorities "after Roscosmos has completed its analysis".
Agency chief Dmitry Rogozin implied on Russian state TV that the western sanctions, some of which pre-date Russia's military action in Ukraine, could disrupt the operation of Russian spacecraft servicing the ISS.
