{"id":1236,"date":"2019-07-14T00:28:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T05:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.biz-america.com\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2019-07-14T00:30:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T05:30:26","slug":"russia-launches-major-new-telescope-into-space-after-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"Russia launches major new telescope into space after delays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MOSCOW (AP) &#8211; A Russian Proton-M rocket \nsuccessfully delivered a cutting-edge space telescope into orbit \nSaturday after days of launch delays, Russia&#8217;s space agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roscosmos\n said the telescope, named Spektr-RG, was delivered into a parking orbit\n before a final burn Saturday that kicked the spacecraft out of Earth&#8217;s \norbit and on to its final destination: the L2 Lagrange point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lagrange\n points are unique positions in the solar system where objects can \nmaintain their position relative to the sun and the planets that orbit \nit. Located 1.5 million kilometers (0.93 million miles) from Earth, L2 \nis particularly ideal for telescopes such as Spektr-RG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If all \ngoes well, the telescope will arrive at its designated position in three\n months, becoming the first Russian spacecraft to operate beyond Earth&#8217;s\n orbit since the Soviet era. The telescope aims to conduct a complete \nx-ray survey of the sky by 2025, the first space telescope to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\n Russian accomplishment comes as the U.S. space agency NASA celebrates \nthe 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian\n space science missions have suffered greatly since the 1991 collapse of\n the Soviet Union. Budget cuts have forced the Russian space program to \nshift toward more commercial efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/07\/13\/20\/wire-16008312-1563045909-724_634x360.jpg\" alt=\"In this frame grab taken from video on Saturday, July 13, 2019, and distributed by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service, a Russian Proton-M rocket takes off from the launch pad at Russia's space facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. A Russian Proton-M rocket successfully delivered a cutting-edge space telescope into orbit Saturday after days of launch delays, Russia's space agency said. (Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service photo via AP)\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">+1   \n  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this frame grab taken from video\n on Saturday, July 13, 2019, and distributed by Roscosmos Space Agency \nPress Service, a Russian Proton-M rocket takes off from the launch pad \nat Russia&#8217;s space facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. A Russian Proton-M \nrocket successfully delivered a cutting-edge space telescope into orbit \nSaturday after days of launch delays, Russia&#8217;s space agency said. \n(Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service photo via AP)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A \nRussian Mars probe, called Mars 96, failed to leave Earth&#8217;s orbit in \n1996. A later attempt to send a probe to Mars, called Fobos-Grunt, \nsuffered a similar fate in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Work on Spektr-RG telescope \nbegan in the 1980s but was scrapped in the 1990s. Spektr-RG was revived \nin 2005 and redesigned to be smaller, simpler and cheaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In its\n modern form, the project is a close collaboration between Russian and \nGerman scientists, who both installed telescope equipment aboard the \nRussian spacecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW (AP) &#8211; A Russian Proton-M rocket successfully delivered a cutting-edge space telescope into orbit Saturday after days of launch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}