According to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak, the agreement provides for Russia and Germany's joint activities in space exploration, distance space sounding of the earth, space medicine and biology, communications and satellite navigation systems, including the development and production of spacecraft and their airborne instruments, and also in the development of missile carriers and space launch services.
Within this activity, the sides will also share scientific and technical information, materials, equipment, and technologies.
According to the deputy minister, the work in these areas of co-operation will create prerequisites for increasing the financing and the number of orders of Russian companies and space research centres.
He specified that co-operation was developing in the creation of the liquid-propellant rocket engine and missile carriers of the small and medium class, and also the development of a promising non-expendable carrier and a non-expendable engine for it.
According to Mr. Kislyak, participating in this work is Energomash (Khimki, Moscow region) and the Khimavtomatika design bureau (Voronezh, central Russia).
The deputy minister also noted that further expansion of co-operation within this agreement would make it possible to increase export of Russian hi-tech production, including to other developed countries as well.
He specified that the agreement also regulated the issues of intellectual property, information sharing and protection of confidential information and the sides' property. According to the agreement, equipment, apparatuses, documents and computer programs will be transported with no customs duties or taxes to be paid, including when they are taken to or from third countries.
