space environment №257 30.10.2019 (2019)

It is planned to launch more than 100 OneWeb global communications spacecraft into orbit from the Baikonur and Vostochny cosmodromes, comments Dmitry Loskutov.

The work of environmentalists in the fall sites of spent parts of launch vehicles, says Nikita Fedyna, chief specialist in the operation and application of radar systems of FSUE "CENKI" and Tatiana Koroleva, head of the Environmental Safety Laboratory of the Geographical Faculty of Moscow State University.

Perm, the opening of a new production building in PJSC Proton-PM, says Executive Director Dmitry Schenyatsky.

One line:

- Russia and India have signed a contract;

- RD-180 engines of NPO Energomash are being prepared for shipment to the USA;

- A giant asteroid flew past the Earth;

- Moscow, Conference "Intellectual Capital Management";

- The Insight platform stopped drilling operations on Mars due to an obstacle in the ground;

- China, Hyperbola-2 launch vehicle;

- Birth of a binary star system;

- Results of the competition for the free launch of CubeSat satellites;

- Roscosmos has signed a cooperation agreement with the Kemerovo Region.

The BepiKolombo spacecraft, the first year in space, comments by Alexander Kozyrev and Igor Mitrofanov.

Do you know?

A hypothetical Ninth planet on the outskirts of the Solar System may be a primordial black hole.

Astrophoto of the week: the Ghost nebula, the reflection of the night sky in the mirror of the dried-up salt lake Uyuni in Bolivia, the flight of the ISS across the disk of the Sun.