space environment №207 24.10.2018 (2018)

"BepiColombo" is flying to Mercury.

Senior Researcher of the Department of Nuclear Paleontology of the ICI RAS Alexander Kozyrev talks about the device of the MGNS (Mercurian gamma-neutron spectrometer).

Artificial Moon.

Modern plans of Chinese scientists and the Russian project of 1993 "Banner-2", says the project developer Nadezhda Tatarnikova.

One line:

- RKS and public transport;

- NPO Energomash, a mock-up of the RD-171M V engine for the Soyuz-5 launch vehicle;

- ISS crew;

- A new dwarf planet 2015 TG387 "Goblin" has been discovered;

- Mars in Antarctica, the 64th Russian Antarctic Expedition starts;

- Sun dance.

Chronograph: 50 years of the flight of the Soyuz-3 spacecraft with cosmonaut Beregov.

Astrophoto of the week: the crescent of Venus over the hills of Romania, observers of the launch of the Falcon-9 on the ocean, a globular star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud.