In the United States, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology severed ties with a research university it helped establish in Moscow. In Germany, Britain and elsewhere, funding and support is also being withdrawn for projects involving Russia. The European Union is freezing Russian entities out of its main 95 billion euro ($105 billion) fund for research, suspending payments and saying they'll get no new contracts. Scientists who became friends are staying in touch informally but plugs are being pulled on their projects big and small. International indignation and sanctions on Russia are making formal collaborations difficult or impossible.
And this is something that we will lose, and we have lost now, through the invasion of Russia in Ukraine." "Dependency on each other, of course, creates also stability and, to a certain extent, trust. "We need to untangle all this cooperation which we had, and this is a very complex process, a painful one I can also tell you," the ESA director, Josef Aschbacher, said in an Associated Press interview. In that case, the launch, already scrubbed for this year, couldn't happen before 2026. Arrays of Russian sensors to sniff, scour and study the planet's environment may have to be unbolted and replaced and a non-Russian launcher rocket found if the suspension of their collaboration becomes a lasting rupture. The European Space Agency's planned Mars rover with Russia is an example. However, work continues on the 35-nation ITER fusion-energy project in southern France, with Russia still among seven founders sharing costs and results from the experiment. The war in Ukraine is causing a swift and broad decaying of scientific ties between Russia and the West.
The ITER Tokamak machine is pictured in Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance, France, Sept. Picking apart the dense web of relationships will be complicated. Russian and Western scientists have become dependent on each other's expertise as they have worked together on conundrums from unlocking the power of atoms to firing probes into space. Tackling climate change and other problems will be tougher without collaboration and time will be lost. The costs of this decoupling, scientists say, could be high on both sides.
Post-Cold War bridge-building through science is unraveling as Western nations seek to punish and isolate the Kremlin by drying up support for scientific programs involving Russia. In scientific fields with profound implications for mankind's future and knowledge, Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine is causing a swift and broad decaying of relationships and projects that bound together Moscow and the West. Europe's space agency is wrestling with how its planned Mars rover might survive freezing nights on the Red Planet without its Russian heating unit.Īnd what of the world's quest for carbon-free energy if 35 nations cooperating on an experimental fusion-power reactor in France can't ship vital components from Russia?
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