space environment (№ 213 ) 05.12.2018 (2018)

A new expedition to orbit in honor of the 20th anniversary of the ISS: The Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with the Soyuz MS-11 manned spacecraft was launched from Baikonur.

Interview: Pavel Vlasov, Head of the Gagarin Space Center, Ken Podwalski, Manager of the ISS scientific program of the Canadian Space Agency.

Vostochny is preparing for launch, the assembly of the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle has been completed.1a" for launching remote sensing satellites "Canopus-V" into orbit.

One line:

- Plesetsk, the launch of the rocket "Rokot";

- The Soyuz-5 medium-class launch vehicle will be called the Irtysh;

- PJSC "Cryogenmash" has manufactured drainage tanks of the refueling system for the Eastern;

- California, launch of the Falcon-9 launch vehicle with 64 small satellites from 17 countries;

- Agreement between Roscosmos and Rossvyaz on information exchange;

- Soyuz MS-10, postponement of the launch to March 1, 2019;

- Kuru, successful launch of the Ariane-5 launch vehicle;

- The discovery of new gravitational waves, comments by Leonid Prokhorov.

Astrophoto of the week: Everest and star tracks, the Westerland-1 cluster, the Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with the Soyuz MS-11 transport ship is going to the Gagarin launch.

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