Russia seizes Germany’s telescope in space!

Russiastarted to lose its partners in space after the war against Ukraine. The Russian Space Agency (which has previously experienced tensions with NASA, ESA and SpaceX)Roscosmos) to Germany He said they could confiscate a telescope that belonged to him.

Germany’s eROSITA telescope will stay in Russia

Launched in 2019 by connecting to Roscosmos’ spacecraft eROSITA space telescopemay be taken away from Germany. Germany, which suspended its work in space with Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, said that it would keep eROSITA on hold. Roscosmos claimed that he could seize the spacecraft and continue the operation alone.

Developed by the Max Planck Institute in Germany, the eROSITA telescope, which was also Russia’s observation telescope in 2019, ART-XC X-ray was launched with it. However, it was put into sleep mode after the Ukraine war.

The latest threat from Roscosmos said that Germany could reopen eROSITA without permission. Russia even claimed that it could combine this telescope with the ART-XC X-ray and capture it. Explanation on the subject From Roscosmos manager Dmitry Rogozin came.

Rogozin stated in a television program he attended that Germany did not have the right to stop this research “just because they were enemies”. Roscosmos Chief used the following statements regarding eROSITA:

“I have instructed the German telescope in the Spektr-RG system to begin work on restoring it so it will work with the Russian telescope. Despite Germany’s request to shut down one of the two telescopes at Spektr-RG, Russian experts continue their work.”

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joint space exploration project of Russia and Germany Spektr-RGIt travels about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. The future of the Spektr-RG research, which is planned to continue for 7.5 years under normal conditions, seems to be up to Russia.

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