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Russia to orbit world's most powerful telescope by 2008
Interfax.ru ^
| October 3, 2006
Posted on 10/03/2006 11:06:30 PM PDT by HAL9000
MOSCOW. Oct 3 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia will orbit its Radioastron telescope by the end of 2008, said Nikolai Kardashev, head of the Russian Physics Institute's Astro-Space Center. "It is expected that the astrophysical observatory Radioastron will be orbited in late 2007. A slight delay is possible. I think that in any case this will not happen later than 2008," Kardashev told a news conference on Tuesday.
The total cost in creating the telescope is about 3 billion rubles, he said.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: astronomy; astrophysics; deepspace; hst; hubbell; hubble; radioastron; science; spacetelescope; telescope
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posted on
10/03/2006 11:06:31 PM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
Does it point down as well?
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posted on
10/03/2006 11:07:16 PM PDT
by
james500
To: HAL9000
To: HAL9000
3 billion rubles sounds like a lot but is about $112 million.
To: james500
LOL
Recycle an old Arkon SovBlock spysat? Why not launch it on a recycled SS-18 - it's all the rage don't 'cha know....
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posted on
10/03/2006 11:19:30 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
To: HAL9000
Good for them. Russian robotic space probes and satellites haven't been truly impressive IMHO since the 1970s. It is a pity the rest of the world puts up so few research spacecraft.
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posted on
10/03/2006 11:20:12 PM PDT
by
burzum
(Despair not! I shall inspire you by charging blindly on!--Minsc, BG2)
To: HAL9000
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posted on
10/04/2006 12:37:58 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
To: HAL9000
Of course, we're developing the James Webb Telescope, which will be so big we can't put it in Earth orbit... it will be orbiting at the Lagrange point and have several hexagonic mirrors several meters across.
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posted on
10/04/2006 3:55:18 AM PDT
by
GAB-1955
(being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Kingdom of Heaven....)
To: HAL9000
Headline:
Russian's Copy and Surpass Americans Again
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posted on
10/04/2006 3:59:37 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Only stupid people would vote for McCain, Warner, Hagle, Snowe, Graham, or any RINO)
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