Status and main parameters of space VLBI mission RadioAstron

Proceedings of the GASS. If the paper is presented at the GASS, it will appear in IEEE Xplore. The RadioAstron project is an international collaborative mission to launch a free-flying satellite carrying a 10-m space radio telescope (SRT) into an elliptical orbit around the Earth. The aim of the mission is to use the space telescope for radio astronomical observations using VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) techniques in conjunction with ground-based VLBI networks. In this presentation we will provide information on the present status of the mission, describe its parameters and scientific access to the mission.