BEIJING (Sputnik) – Moscow and Beijing intend to secure a bilateral agreement on the protection of technology in the coming months, Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos head Igor Komarov said Sunday.
"In the coming months we are preparing an agreement on the protection of technologies… We hope [to sign it] in the summer. Currently, the document is in a high degree of readiness," Komarov, who is on a visit in China on the occasion of China's first Cosmonautics Day celebrations, told reporters.
He added that the deal was crucial for securing contracts in many areas of cooperation, including key space technologies, and would be a basic step for further deliveries of rocket engines.
