Russia launches German space telescope to map cosmos
By DW
20 July 2019 |
5:37 pm
Roskosmos has launched a German-Russian space telescope to replace Moscow's Hubble-like Spektr-R. The telescope will allow scientists to observe more than 100,000 galaxy clusters, marking "the beginning of a new era."
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