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MOSCOW. (Yury Zaitsev for RIA Novosti)
be placed in an extremely elongated orbit with an apogee of 300,000 km or at the so-called libration point, which is the point of Earth-Sun gravitational equilibrium about 1.5 million km from the Earth. Consequently, it would become possible to minimize terrestrial and lunar interference during observations.Moreover, the Hubble Space Telescope cannot conduct UHF observations due to a structural defect. But the Russian telescope, which is just as good as Hubble, would obtain spectrum bands for objects 20 times weaker than those being observed by the NASA telescope.
The Russian telescope is to play a unique role because the Hubble Space Telescope is expected to stop functioning in the next two years and because the United States does not plan to launch its Space Ultraviolet Observatory (SUVO) before 2020. Other countries have no intention of launching large ultraviolet telescopes either. In this situation, the world's astronomical community considers the Spektr-UF
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