2007: Russia enters a space of life research labs outside of Earth

The study of extraterrestrial life will be the main mission of the Russian astrophysics laboratory Radioastron. According to Professor Nikolai Kardachev at the Astronomical Center of the Lebedev Institute of Physics, this space lab will be launched in 2007 from Baikonur space airport.

Radioastron space lab model

Radioastron astrophysics laboratory is equipped with powerful scientific equipment and a parabolic antenna with a diameter of 12m will be put into orbit by a Ukrainian rocket launcher Zenith. Russia has spent about 3 million rubles to create this lab.

'This is a radio interferometer - the equivalent of a radio telescope - that will move at a height of 350,000 kilometers from Earth,' Professor Kardachev explained.

The very eccentric orbits of Radioastron will allow continuous monitoring and study of plasma body details (the gas has the same number of positive and negative charged particles on the Sun and most of the stars) of the solar wind. , galactic nuclei, interstellar environments orbiting black holes, as well as quasars (the source of a very strong magnetic image). These bodies are so far away from the Earth that they cannot understand their structure with current devices.