Russia will take off Spektr-R radio telescope into orbit

Paris - Spektr-R telescope is formed from a 10-meter parabolic antenna weighs 3.8 tons. Initially, this telescope will be launched in 2005, but continued to be delayed due to technical constraints.

Russia will take off Spektr-R radio telescope into orbit

We will see Russia launched the Spektr-R radio telescope into orbit. This radio telescope is Reportedly in operation until the next five years.

Is the Zenit-3M rocket that lifts the telescope from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, to the parking position in space. The telescope will revolve around the earth in an elliptical orbit with a closest distance of the furthest distance of 1,000 kilometers and 330 thousand kilometers.

The telescope was registered as part of a global network of radio telescopes called Radioastron. In orbit, Spektr-R will take photos strange objects in the depths of the universe, such as black holes, neutron stars, and interstellar plasma. "Spektr-R complementary observations of global interferometer," said the Russian space agency officials commented on the launch of the Spektr-R.

Interferometer is one of the design of astronomical observation system that involves a lot of telescope for a more detailed vision. Own global network of radio telescopes combine various separate telescopes on the Earth's surface and in space to form one giant telescope. Therefore, during operation later, Spektr-R has the ability to separate the details of 100 thousand times better than the space telescope, Hubble, NASA made.