Elon Musk points to recent SpaceX launch to mock Russia's suggestion the US might have to fly into space on 'broomsticks' after rocket sales stop

• Russia announced it would stop selling rocket engines to the US after American sanctions.
• Musk bit back at the Russian space chief's suggestion the US fly to space on "broomsticks."

Elon Musk took a jab at Russia's recent suggestion the US would have to get to space on broomsticks after the sale of Russian rocket engines was halted.

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, said on Thursday that $4 to the US after $4 over the war in Ukraine.

"In a situation like this, we can't supply the United States with our world's best rocket engines," Rogozin said on state-run TV. "Let them fly on something else, their broomsticks, I don't know what."

Hours after Rogozin's comments, SpaceX $4 47 of its own Starlink satellites into orbit using the company's Falcon 9 rocket.

Musk $4 with a screenshot of Rogozin's comments highlighted along with the words "American Broomstick" and four US flags.

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It's not the first time Musk has confronted Rogozin.

When Rogozin $4 Musk for offering Starlink internet in Ukraine, Musk $4: "Ukraine civilian Internet was experiencing strange outages – bad weather perhaps? – so SpaceX is helping fix it."

After $4 over the weekend, one engineer told Insider that he was $4 in case his regular internet connection was cut off.

Starlink, SpaceX's satellite internet service, now has more than 2,000 satellites in orbit. $4 in Ukraine to turn on the system "only when needed" because they could be targeted amid the invasion.

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