A long-delayed Russian radio telescope was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the country’s Federal Space Agency said. The Spektr-R orbiting radio observatory was launched Monday into an elliptical orbit that varies between 621 miles and 207,000 miles above the Earth, SPACE.com reported Monday. Multiple delays in construction of the telescope, built by Lavochkin Association of Moscow, had pushed the original launch date of 2004 or 2005 back. Read More
