Dmitry Rogozin has been dismissed as director general of Roscosmos

by HieronymusBosch on 7/15/2022, 12:52 PM with 179 comments
  • by UkrainianJew on 7/15/2022, 3:53 PM

    I find it rather worrying in the long term. Russia has been an extremely inefficient and corrupt state for the past 2 decades. Export oil & gas, import everything else, let the cronies pocket the proceeds, while having most manufacturing, defense and tech exist mostly on paper. People like Rogozin were promoted based on the loyalty and willingness to give a cut of the pie further up the ladder.

    Currently this trend appears to be reversing. The country is getting increasingly authoritarian [0], the economy is switching from a highly corrupt trickle-down-oil-money model, to centrally managed industrial economy driven by the war needs.

    I don't like where this is going. If Russia is pushed back into its borders, it will take a couple of years to ramp up weapons production and will retry. If it manages to successfully take over Ukraine, it will very likely press forward to attack other ex-USSR states. If China decides to join the party and rally out against Taiwan, we pretty much have a guaranteed WWIII until mutual exhaustion.

    [0] https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/07/14/vladimir-putin-enact...

  • by ushakov on 7/15/2022, 1:15 PM

    he's switching jobs, apparently

    > according to Meduza’s sources, Dmitry Rogozin will become one of the Kremlin’s supervisors for the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” and the other Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine

    https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/07/13/the-president-likes-...

  • by lizardactivist on 7/15/2022, 7:42 PM

    I'm always surprised that there are so many "Kremlologists" and experts on Russia here on HN.

  • by option on 7/15/2022, 3:38 PM

    Thanks to rogozin, Russia is the first ever former space state.

  • by ibobev on 7/15/2022, 5:00 PM

    Rogozin was highly incompetent and pure political appointment. It is a good step for Russia dismissing him.

  • by bpodgursky on 7/15/2022, 2:03 PM

    Probably concern that he was becoming unhinged enough to put commercial contracts at risk.

    There are more... fitting... positions right now for a raving nationalist lunatic, I'm sure he'll land on his feet in the DPR or LPR.

  • by gdy on 7/15/2022, 1:43 PM

    Good riddance.

  • by khuey on 7/15/2022, 1:25 PM

    And the long-awaited Soyuz/Crew Dragon seat swap agreement between Roscosmos and NASA was signed an hour or two later. That seems unlikely to be a coincidence.

  • by mmastrac on 7/15/2022, 1:48 PM

    From what little I unfortunately saw from him on twitter, this guy is the Russian equivalent of a hardcore Nazi.

  • by baybal2 on 7/15/2022, 2:11 PM

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  • by aj7 on 7/15/2022, 3:07 PM

    Russia is more realistic about SpaceX dominance than the U.s is.

  • by vbezhenar on 7/15/2022, 3:38 PM

    I think he was good manager, good luck to him.

    It seems that Russia will concentrate on mostly military space applications from now on. So different kind of management will be required.

  • by nikolay on 7/15/2022, 3:39 PM

    I'm not sure why SpaceX is allowed to have a troll for a boss and Roscosmos is not?!