space environment №242 17.07.2019 (2019)

Training of the Soyuz MS-13 crew at Baikonur.

Completion of the Sirius-19 experiment.

Interview: Stefania Fedyai, Alexander Suvorov.

The first goals of the Spectrum-RG astrophysical observatory are told by Mikhail Pavlinsky, a specialist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Joseph Hoil and Rashid Sunyaev.

One line:

- Plesetsk, Soyuz-2 launch vehicle.1b" launched 4 spacecraft into space in the interests of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation;

- The start of the Chandrayan-2 mission has been postponed;

- Moscow Planetarium opens the first summer astronomical observations;

- The first data of the Meteor-M device;

- Astronomers have found an asteroid with the shortest period of rotation around the Sun;

- Lunar eclipse.

Chronograph: the Soyuz-Apollo project, recalls Alexey Leonov.

Astrophoto of the week: nebula "Ghost of Jupiter"; nebula M83 "Galaxy of a thousand rubies", aka "Southern pinwheel"; collage "Moon Games".