space environment (№ 187 ) 04.04.2018 (2018)

A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket powered by a Soviet NK-33 engine has successfully launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome.

The Chinese space station "Heavenly Palace" has been taken out of orbit.

One line:

- The Falcon-9 launch vehicle launched from Cape Canaveral and launched the Dragon spacecraft with cargo for the ISS into space, the docking was successful;

- CENKI employees work in Kuru;

- The FIDAE-2018 International Aerospace Exhibition opened in Santiago;

- The Milky Way is increasing in size.

Chronograph: automatic station "Luna-10", the first artificial satellite of the Moon.

Astrophoto of the week: Saturn measuring complex at Baikonur, NGC 2023 nebula, "I brought you the Moon".

"The cosmos is us."

On April 12, many schools will host a traditional Gagarin lesson.

Press conference at the Journalist's House (Vladimir Solovyov, Boris Volynov, Yuri Lonchakov).