🚀On the occasion of Cosmonautics Day we introduce Russian inventions in the Space industry!

🛰"Spectrum-X-Gamma" consists of two mirror telescopes. They operate on the principle of oblique incident optics.

🔭The apparatus makes a complete overview of the sky and creates a map of the Universe in X-rays with large galaxy clusters. It studies the evolution of galaxies and investigates the nature of the dark energy that is causing the Universe to expand with great acceleration.

The invention weighs 2,712 kg. It was launched in 2019.

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