The space industry is well-funded and already cares a lot about demonstrating impact (using a broader definition of impact than EA) to justify its funding, so (a)-(c) might be possible with industry support, and to some extent already exists.
I think the overarching story behind (f) is relatively uncomplicated particularly in the context of ongoing trade between Russia and Ukraine-supporters over oil etc : Roscosmos continued to collaborate with NASA et al on stuff like ISS because agreements remained in place and were too critical to suspend. Russia was never actually part of ESA and I suspect many people would have preferred it if Roscosmos was kicked off projects like ExoMars earlier. Probably helps that the engineers and cosmonauts on both sides are likely a good deal more levelheaded than Dmitry Rogozhin, but I don’t think we’ll hear what went on behind closed doors for a while...
(d) might be interesting to read
The space industry is well-funded and already cares a lot about demonstrating impact (using a broader definition of impact than EA) to justify its funding, so (a)-(c) might be possible with industry support, and to some extent already exists.
I think the overarching story behind (f) is relatively uncomplicated particularly in the context of ongoing trade between Russia and Ukraine-supporters over oil etc : Roscosmos continued to collaborate with NASA et al on stuff like ISS because agreements remained in place and were too critical to suspend. Russia was never actually part of ESA and I suspect many people would have preferred it if Roscosmos was kicked off projects like ExoMars earlier. Probably helps that the engineers and cosmonauts on both sides are likely a good deal more levelheaded than Dmitry Rogozhin, but I don’t think we’ll hear what went on behind closed doors for a while...