space environment (№ 180 ) 07.02.2018 (2018)

Baikonur: preparation for the flight of the Progress MS-08 transport ship, cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev talks about the Ikarus experiment.

A superheavy class rocket complex will be created at the Vostochny cosmodrome, RSC Energia, Samara RCC Progress, and CENKI are taking part in the development.

NASA astronauts Christina Cook and Andrew Morgan, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi arrived at the Gagarin Space Center to prepare for the flight on the Soyuz spacecraft.

USA, the first launch of the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle of the private company SpaceX.

NASA astronauts Joseph Acaba and Richard Arnold will teach lessons based on the script of Sharon Christa McAuliffe, who died in the crash of the Challenger on January 28, 1986.

One line:

- From February 5 to 13, after 18 hours, the ISS will be visible over Russia;

- Japan has put a scientific satellite into Earth orbit with the help of the smallest launch vehicle in the world;

- Vinylocyanide has been detected in the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's moon.

Chronograph: February 7, 1897 is the birthday of Alexander Leonidovich Chizhevsky, the founder of heliobiology and the creator of the world's first aeroionizer (Chizhevsky chandelier).

Astrophoto of the week: a single galaxy MGC-7252 "Peaceful Atom", a selfie of the Mars rover "Curiosity", a solar eclipse of 2012 with the transit of Venus across the disk of the Sun.