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.
“In 2009 we plan a mission to Phobos, a satellite of Mars, which will include a landing and collection of rock samples,” he said.
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