Russia, China consider building joint on-orbit assembling space telescope

Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 15, 2020

Russian and Chinese experts have developed a joint concept of what can become the world's first large telescope to be assembled in space by supervised robotic manipulators, Mikhail Sachkov, the deputy director of the Institute of Astronomy at the Russian Academy of Sciences which develops the project on the Russian end, said. "Our Chinese colleagues have asked our institute to become the s