MOSCOW: A Russian Proton-M rocket successfully delivered a high technology cutting-edge space telescope into orbit Saturday (Sunday in Manila) after days of launch delays, Russia’s space agency said.

Roscosmos said the telescope, named Spektr-RG, can visually magnify where it is pointed more than 2,000 times the normal size, thus making it appear very near to naked eye.

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