[FPSPACE] Russian Satellite to Search for Extraterrestrial Life

[LARRY KLAES]

Russian Satellite to Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Russia is to launch a special satellite this year in search for 
extraterrestrial civilisations in remote galaxies, the ITAR-TASS news agency 
reports.

The Spektr R (Spectrum-Roentgen) x-ray satellite to be launched later this 
will carry a 20-metre antenna for the study of galaxies and extraterrestrial 
civilisations.

"It would be arrogant of us to presume that human beings are the only life 
in the universe," Georgy Polishchuk of the Lavochkin Research and Production 
Enterprise was quoted as saying by the agency.

Polishchuk, who heads the Moscow-based enterprise, said that Lavochkin was 
also working on interplanetary missions.

Full article here:

http://www.russianspy.org/2007/01/09/russian-satellite-to-search-for-extraterrestrial-life/