space environment (№ 192 ) 16.05.2018 (2018)

The test flight of the Soyuz GVK spacecraft will take place in 2019.

Antenna of the Spectrum-M orbital radio telescope for studying the Universe (Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems).

NASA's Mars autonomous helicopter.

One line:

- Maintenance of equipment at the Vostochny cosmodrome;

- Passage of asteroid 2010 WC9 past Earth;

- Australia's First National Space Agency;

- Space Debris Observation Station in Chile;

- Geysers on Europa, a satellite of Jupiter.

Chronograph: the first launch of the superheavy launch vehicle "Energia", recall Oleg Baklanov and Evgeny Raikovsky.

Astrophoto of the week: the Blackbird Egg nebula, the night eruption of the Sakurajima volcano (Sakurajima), the collage "The Observable Universe".