Revival of the project: Russia will complete the giant Suffa radio telescope
Russia will invest $ 100 million in the construction of the Suffa radio telescope in Uzbekistan to study space. “Suffa” in translation from Uzbek “bench” is a radio telescope with a diameter of 70 meters, located on the eponymous mountain plateau in the spurs of the Turkestan Range.
It began to be built in 1985 in the USSR, but in 1991, for obvious reasons, the project was frozen. "Suffa" is intended for receiving signals from space in the millimeter range, its meaning is explained in the Russian Academy of Sciences:
Currently, other countries already have similar projects, but in Russia itself there is no radio telescope with similar characteristics yet. Within the framework of the Spectrum-M program, it is planned to launch into orbit the 10-meter Millimetron telescope, which is designed to study the Universe in the millimeter and infrared ranges. Suffa and Millimetron could form an effective research pair. Moreover, it can turn into a trio if in Uzbekistan a third radio telescope is built at the Maidanak observatory. Experts note that such a high-altitude network will be able not only to conduct research activities, but also to control Russian outer space:
It is believed that with the help of radio telescopes you can try to catch the signals of extraterrestrial civilizations, study black holes and the so-called "wormholes". Suffa will be an international scientific center, and may be completed as early as 2024. Behind technical the Russian side should be responsible, all astronomical organizations of the country will be involved, the infrastructure will be Uzbek. As of 2005, the completion of the radio telescope was estimated at $ 50 million, but after that it went up 2 times. The project is open to all who wish to join it.
Moscow considers Suffa a symbol of the revival of Russia's presence in the CIS countries and scientific ties with Uzbekistan. The launch of the Millimetron was supposed to be completed as early as next year, but due to the sequestration of expenses, the Russian observatory was excluded from the Space Program until 2025. RAS experts believe that Millimetron will be put into a given orbit no earlier than 2030. Suffa may enter the global network of millimeter-wave search radio telescopes. In Russia they attach great political value to this joint science project.
It began to be built in 1985 in the USSR, but in 1991, for obvious reasons, the project was frozen. "Suffa" is intended for receiving signals from space in the millimeter range, its meaning is explained in the Russian Academy of Sciences:
The millimeter wavelength range allows, for example, to see areas of the origin of stars, the nuclei of distant galaxies, in fact - the distant past of the Universe
Currently, other countries already have similar projects, but in Russia itself there is no radio telescope with similar characteristics yet. Within the framework of the Spectrum-M program, it is planned to launch into orbit the 10-meter Millimetron telescope, which is designed to study the Universe in the millimeter and infrared ranges. Suffa and Millimetron could form an effective research pair. Moreover, it can turn into a trio if in Uzbekistan a third radio telescope is built at the Maidanak observatory. Experts note that such a high-altitude network will be able not only to conduct research activities, but also to control Russian outer space:
Together with Suffa and Maidanak, the Millimetron space telescope, which will rotate at a distance of one and a half million kilometers from the Earth, we will get the equivalent of a radio telescope of the order of one and a half million kilometers (!) In diameter
It is believed that with the help of radio telescopes you can try to catch the signals of extraterrestrial civilizations, study black holes and the so-called "wormholes". Suffa will be an international scientific center, and may be completed as early as 2024. Behind technical the Russian side should be responsible, all astronomical organizations of the country will be involved, the infrastructure will be Uzbek. As of 2005, the completion of the radio telescope was estimated at $ 50 million, but after that it went up 2 times. The project is open to all who wish to join it.
Moscow considers Suffa a symbol of the revival of Russia's presence in the CIS countries and scientific ties with Uzbekistan. The launch of the Millimetron was supposed to be completed as early as next year, but due to the sequestration of expenses, the Russian observatory was excluded from the Space Program until 2025. RAS experts believe that Millimetron will be put into a given orbit no earlier than 2030. Suffa may enter the global network of millimeter-wave search radio telescopes. In Russia they attach great political value to this joint science project.
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