Control over Russia's only space telescope Spektr-R has been misplaced because of communications failure, the director of the Astro Space Center of the Physical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences told Sputnik on Saturday, adding that attempts to regain manage are underway..

Such screw ups have already came about. Everything might also operate again. We desire for that," Nikolai Kardashev said.

He pointed out that the telescope couldn't recognize instructions from the manage middle however continued to send clinical information to Earth.

Kardashev referred to that numerous tries to regain manage over the telescope had already failed.


The guarantee carrier existence of the Spektr-R telescope to begin with expired in 2016 but turned into later prolonged until December 31, 2019.

MOSCOW (Tech Info / Sputnik - twelfth January, 2019) Control over Russia's most effective space telescope Spektr-R has been misplaced because of communications failure, the director of the Astro Space Center of the Physical Institute of Russian academy of Sciences told Sputnik on Saturday, adding that attempts to regain manipulate are underway.


"Now there are tries to fix the state of affairs ... There are diverse systems of communique there, some of them working and some aren't ...