U.S. Court of Federal claims has imposed on Wednesday a court ban on the use of Russian rocket engines organization United Launch Alliance joint venture organizations Lockheed Martin and Boeing.

for example, the United Launch Alliance is forbidden to make any acquisitions or payments with NPO Energomash ", according to a court order, which does not concern previous contracts and procurement.

Ban has made a private Company SpaceX, which produces rocket and space devices. SpaceX protested Against what the U.S. air force without a tender handed the contract to a joint venture of the American military organizations that purchase rocket engines in Russia.

the agreement United Launch Alliance with the Russian-American factory " EP-Amros " presupposes deliveries in the USA 36 rocket engine RD-180. SpaceX is seeking commercial tender on purchase, hoping to win it from the Russian manufacturer. The court ruled against the background of appeals in the US Congress to create a U.S. rocket engine on liquid fuel for five years, so as not to depend on Russian products. Against this step is performed before other organizations, in particular, Orbital Sciences, which uses Russian engines for launch vehicles.

before the Ministry of defense reported that because of the Ukrainian drop has the opportunity to be revised question about the use of Russian RD-180 engines for launch vehicles Atlas. Executive Director of producing these engines enterprises " Energomash " Vladimir Solntsev in the last month of the summer of 2013 said that the termination of deliveries in the USA increases the possibility of bringing to a sharp drop download enterprises and, as consequence, to its closure.

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