Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin said that Germany has notified plans to turn off its eROSITA telescope at the Spektr-RG joint orbital observatory.Discuss
According to Rogozin, “technical specialists from Germany are very worried about this, because for them this is a powerful blow, according to their professional credo, but they cannot do anything.”
Recall that Roskosmos has already suspended cooperation with the Europeans on launches from the Kourou equatorial cosmodrome and recalled about 90 Russian specialists from French Guiana.
Spektr-RG Orbital Astrophysical Observatory was developed at the Lavochkin Research and Production Association. It is equipped with two X-ray telescopes: the Russian ART-XC and eROSITA from the Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics of the Max Planck Society in Germany. The goal of the observatory is to scan the sky over a wide range of energies to eventually map it.
Source: Naked Science