Rogozin will instruct astronauts on the ISS to stop working with the European manipulator ERA

He commented on the information that the European Space Agency (ESA) is terminating cooperation with Roscosmos on the ExoMars program.

“And I, in turn, give the command to our crew on the ISS to stop working with the European ERA manipulator,” Rogozin said in his Telegram channel. 

The ERA manipulator is installed on the Russian Nauka module on the ISS. 

Earlier, the head of the ESA, Josef Aschbacher, said that the European Space Agency was ending its previously suspended cooperation with Roscosmos on the ExoMars program.

In March 2022, the ruling council of the European Space Agency declared it impossible to continue cooperation with the Roscosmos state corporation on the ExoMars mission due to Russia's special operation in Ukraine.