Russia has launched its Spektr-R radio telescope into space, planned to be the most powerful ever and the first deep space observatory sent up by Moscow in a quarter of a century [....] The observatory, a project first conceived three decades ago under the Soviet Union, [....] It will have a highly elliptical orbit of around 340,000 km, and an official working life of five years, although its creators hope it may last even longer. The far-Earth orbit will bring it within 50,000 km of the moon [?], allowing it to use the lunar gravity to change the orbit angle and see more of the sky. Boasting a 10-metre diameter antenna that will unfurl from carbon-fibre petals, Spektr-R's creators say that it will be able to produce images with a resolution 100,000 times [?] that of the famed U.S. Hubble Space telescope. [....] The first images from the telescope are expected to be released by the end of the year.
Alguns dos parâmetros da sua actuação são magníficos, e é excelente que a Rússia regresse em força ao espaço neste momento em que os EUA parecem não saberem aquilo que querem, para além de não aumentar impostos em qualquer situação. Falta uma corrida espacial a sério nos dias que correm.
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