Russians launch new space super-telescope

SPACE EYE: Russians launch new space super-telescope, said to be "able to produce images with a resolution 100,000 times that of the famed US Hubble Space telescope." The Australian reports: "Working with ground based telescopes, Spektr-R will be able to create a virtual base for receiving data 340,000-km long by using a technique known as inferomety which combines signals from different sources. The telescope, which official Russian news agencies said is the first such launched by Moscow for 25 years, comes as Russia is seriously returning to deep space exploration after years of absence. It is due in November to finally launch its eagerly-awaited Fobos-Grunt probe, which will seek to return a soil sample from the Martian moon Fobos to Earth and also observe the Red Planet." A report from RT.