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Russia: the Spektr-RG telescope launched

X-ray images to study the universe - VIDEO

The new telescope was successfully launched last Saturday, July 13 at 2.31 pm Italian time, with a "Proton-M" rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhistan into the orbit."Spektr-RG" will have the ambitious task of finding up to three million new supermassive black holes, drawing a map of the evolution of the universe and helping to understand the characteristics of the "dark matter". The telescope...

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Baikonur, Kazakistan, 07/15/2019 11:10
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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