MOSCOW, May 11 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) is preparing to re-launch the Radioastron astrophysical laboratory after a 20-year interval, the agency said at its website, www.roscosmos.ru.
The project envisages an automatic laboratory that will observe remote extra-galactic objects, allowing researchers to collect unique data on the universe's structure, Roscosmos said.
The project envisages the systematic studies of phenomena like highly massive black holes inside the nuclei of nearby and far-away galaxies, stellar-mass black holes in the Milky Way Galaxy, neutron stars and the terrestrial gravitation field.
The Lavochkin science and production association assembled a lab model.
Radioastron features highly sensitive equipment that was tested at the observatory of the Lebedev Physics Institute's observatory in Pushchino, a city in the Moscow region's south.
