"Roskosmos head Anatoly Perminov met in Moscow today with the head of the German Space Agency Ludwig Baumgarten. Germany plans to strengthen its space operation, including [through cooperation] with Russia," Igor Panarin said.
He said Germany will participate in the Spectrum-RG space lab research program and build a space telescope, eRosita.
Known previously as Spektr-Rentgen-Gamma, the project was later transformed into the Spectrum-RG/eRosita/Lobster program.
Roskosmos said earlier the observatory will be placed on an ideal equatorial orbit (in terms of minimal background radiation) at an altitude of 580-600 km, below the earth's radiation belt with a zero angle achieved by a launch from the space center in Kourou using a Russian Soyuz-2 booster.
Panarin said the lab with have a payload of up to 1,500 kilograms and a life span of five years.
He said other participants in the project include the UK, Italy, Turkey and Kyrgyzstan.
