Last week, the United States Court of Federal Claims
granted an injunction that prevented US-based companies from purchasing Russian RD-180 rocket
engines. That injunction was put in place to give the court time to
examine whether or not buying those engines contravened Executive Order
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designed to sanction persons in the Russian government over the ongoing Russian-Ukraine crisis. Yesterday afternoon, however, the same court
sided with the US government’s appeal—to the best of the court’s knowledge, the purchase of RD-180 rocket engines doesn’t violate the executive order....