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eROSITA X-ray telescope: DLR and Roskosmos sign agreement in Moscow
The German eROSITA (extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array) X-ray telescope is to start searching for black holes and dark matter in 2012, using seven electronic 'eyes'. On 18 August 2009, executive board members of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the head of Russians space agency Roskosmos signed a detailed agreement during the MAKS International Aviation and Space Salon in Moscow, setting out all the organisational and technical boundary conditions for the eROSITA project.
As long ago as March 2007, a memorandum of understanding defined the willingness of the agencies to collaborate in principle on this project.

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