Mikhail Pavlinsky

On July 13, 2019, Proton rocket launcher with DM-03 booster blasted off from Baikonur cosmodrome, carrying Russian X-ray observatory Spektr-RG. Today, we name some — but by no means the only — fascinating results of its work in these five years.

On July 1st and 2nd cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner practised EVA elements with the payload for All-Sky Monitor experiment (MVN) in the Yu. A. Gagarin Research & Test Cosmonaut Training Center.

On 13 July 2019 a long-awaited Spektr-RG mission soared up from Baikonur to reveal the hidden X-ray Universe with its two telescopes — eROSITA and ART-XC.