Employees of the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the USSR Academy of Sciences (currently of the Russian Academy of Sciences). Work is underway on the the Quazar-KVO project comprising three separate observatories making up a global radio telescope of the area of 12 million square kilometers with observation points over 4,000 km apart. The first observatory is located in Svetloye, Karelian Isthmus; the second one in Zelenchukskaya, North Caucasus, with Badary observatory in the Republic of Buryatia closing up the giant triangle. The Quazar-KVO project became the foundation of the future Russian satellite navigation system GLONASS.
- Categories: Science & Technology
- Location: St.Petersburg, Russia
- Event date: 29.09.1989
- Date published: 19.05.2021
- Author: Юрий Простяков
- Credit: Sputnik
- Original: 89-11719, 35 mm film
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