space environment №210 14.11.2018 (2018)

The Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with the Progress MS-10 cargo ship is being prepared for launch at Baikonur.

The main and backup crews of ISS-58/59 undergo comprehensive training and pass exams at the Gagarin Central Research Center.

The Parker probe passed at a distance of 24 million km from the Sun.

The Mayor of Moscow awarded the status of a technopark to the Scientific and Production Corporation "Precision Instrument Systems" (SPP).

One line:

- Eight Protons from the Khrunichev CC by the end of 2018;

- S7 Company plans to build a reusable Soyuz 7SL launch vehicle;

- Cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov was awarded the title of Hero of Russia;

- Music of Mars;

- Fyodor Yurchikhin has been appointed President of the Cosmonautics and Aviation Center at VDNH;

- Reconstruction of the launch complex of the Zenit launch vehicle for the new Soyuz-5 medium-class rocket and the Baiterek program has begun at Baikonur;

- SpaceX modifies the upper stage of the Falcon-9 launch vehicle;

- The Japanese space Agency "Jaxa" has returned to Earth the descent capsule of the Konotori-7 space truck;

- Commercial launch from New Zealand, CubeSat satellites have been successfully launched into orbit.

Chronograph: "Venus-2" and "Venus-3".

Astrophoto of the week: California nebula, NGC 1672 galaxy, Mars' "loop".