space environment № 204 26.09.2018 (2018)

Seeing off in Star City, the main and backup crews of the ISS-57/58 expedition went to Baikonur.

Radiation and flight to Mars.

The British device "Remove DEBRIS" for the first time in the world carried out the cleaning of space debris in Earth orbit.

One line:

- Two research robots from the Hayabusa-2 probe landed on the Ryugu asteroid;

- Russia plans to create a returnable carrier rocket "Krylo-SV" by 2023;

- The orbital observatory "TESS" transmitted images of two previously unknown Earth-like planets;

- Robot for deep space, developed by the NGO "Android Technology".

Chronograph: "Zond-5", from the history of the first flyby of the Moon with living beings on board.

Astrophoto of the week: the Cocoon nebula, Cyprus in the lens of Fyodor Yurchikhin, the Northern lights from an airplane.