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Russian-German space telescope is launched

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Russian-German space telescope is launched


30.10.2019

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The Russian-German Space Observatory Spektr-RG has initiated its mission to map the entire universe, Sputnik News reported. 

The Spektr-RG mission is a joint project between Roscosmos and the German space agency DLR. Note, that Spektr-RG was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 13. 

The Russian-German telescope reached its operational point of 1.5 million kilometers (932,000 miles) away from Earth on Monday where it is set to map the entire sky in unprecedented detail. For the next four years the telescope is expected to perform 8 all-sky surveys to map X-rays sources in the universe with unprecedented detail. The 2.5 years after that are planned for observations of selected galaxy clusters. X-ray telescopes are best suited for photographing distant objects of the universe, such as clusters of galaxies, active galactic nuclei, supernova remnants and x-ray binary stars. 

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