Russia's Answer To Hubble Is A High-Tech Ultraviolet Telescope For 2025

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Move over, Hubble! Russia to spend $50 million to build  high-tech ultraviolet telescope to be launched into space in October  2025

16 Jul, 2021

Russia has allocated around 3.7 billion rubles ($50 million) to  build a state-of-the-art space telescope with the ability to observe in ultraviolet, designed to see parts of the cosmos inaccessible to ground-based equipment.

According to RIA Novosti,  Russia's space agency Roscosmos and its subsidiary Lavochkin signed a  contract to build the Spektr-UV, with work scheduled to be completed by  the end of 2025. The telescope is designed to use ultraviolet  observe parts of space inaccessible to ground-based telescopes. It will  be launched into space, in a similar way to the US' Hubble, and will  allow researchers to study stars, galaxies, and black holes, as well as  the atmosphere of planets and exoplanets, and comets.

James Webb telescope scheduled for October 2021

  It will also be equipped with spectrographs and cameras to produce high-quality images. The Spektr-UV is the second telescope announced by Russia this month. Last week, it was revealed that the Altai Optical-Laser Center was commissioned to build a ground-based optical-laser system to observe satellites, making it possible to assess their condition from Earth. It will also be able to determine what kind of equipment is on foreign satellites and detect space debris that threatens domestic equipment in orbit.

Move over, Hubble! Russia to spend $50 million to build high-tech ultraviolet telescope to be launched into space in October 2025 — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
https://www.rt.com/russia/529369-ultraviolet-telescope-space-future-launch