Russia is preparing a new orbital telescope to study exoplanets

The Russian orbital observatory, called the Star Patrol, will go into orbit by 2022, TASS reports. She will be engaged in a detailed study of exoplanets, various phenomena in space and the general monitoring of objects that are dangerous to the Earth.

The Star Patrol is being prepared by the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The diameter of the main telescope mirror will be more than one and a half meters.
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For the Space Research Institute, this is not the first project to launch space telescopes into orbit - the astrophysical observatory Gamma was launched in 1990, the international astrophysical observatory Granat conducted its first studies in December 1989.

In addition, the plans of the IKI RAS include the launch of a small spacecraft "Strannik", which will be engaged in research of various processes in the external magnetosphere and the solar wind. The launch of the “Wanderer” is scheduled for 2019. Next year, the Chibis-AI microsatellite will be launched to monitor the Earth’s ionosphere.

After 2020, the landing module will be launched on Venus (the Venus-D project). In 2024 - the project "Boomerang", which includes an automatic interplanetary station for the study of the Mars of Phobos satellite.

As for the long-term plans, the launch of the orbital astrophysical observatory "X-ray microphone", the station "Laplace P", which will spend most of the time on the satellite of Jupiter Ganymede, is expected after 2025.