Today, 18th June 2011, Roskosmos launched a space-based radio observatory named "Spectrum-R" (RadioAstron).
Combining RadioAstron with Earth-based radio observatories give to scientists a huge interferometer with more than 300 000 km base.
Who knows, may be in next years Einstein@Home will be start to crunch a RadioAstron data? :)
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RadioAstron launched
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New Scientist: Space telescope to create radio 'eye' larger than Earth
Short video about
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Short video about this(english): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48O4kgjjKkc. HDTV 1080 video is here (russian language but just to watch picture is enough):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0s9g3iuVtY&NR=1
Launch itself(my comrade video):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMr-6DepS98
I'd like to crunch this data :)