space environment (№ 191 ) 09.05.2018 (2018)

TsAGI, the layout of the Russian manned spacecraft "Federation" is being tested in wind tunnels.

The Insight mission has launched to Mars.

The first color images of ExoMars.

The private company Blue Origin conducted tests of the New Shepard suborbital spacecraft in Texas.

One line:

- Preparation for the launch of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft;

- Japanese "BABY rocket" SS-520;

- Remote sensing satellites and volcanoes;

- Oleg Artemyev filmed the disappearance of the Moon in the Earth's atmosphere from the ISS.

Astrophoto of the week: Mount Magellan, "snow" on a comet, 1.5 billion stars on the map of the European space Observatory "Gaia".

Victory Day on the ISS.

Cosmonauts Artemyev and Shkaplerov congratulate the Earth on the holiday.