space environment (№ 264 ) 18.12.2019 (2019)

Vostochny, the beginning of the installation of equipment for the first Angara rocket, the continuation of the construction of the launch pad and other structures.

Interview: Dmitry Rogozin, Andrey Okhlopkov, Deputy Chief Engineer of PSO "Kazan" Vitaly Koksharov.

ICI RAS, conference "High Energy Astrophysics Today and Tomorrow".

Fragments of speeches by Sergey Sazonov and Rashid Syunyaev.

Gagarin scholarships and the anniversary of cosmonaut Boris Volynov.

One line:

- Kuru, launch of the Soyuz ST-A launch vehicle, successful launch of 5 satellites into orbit, including the Cheops space telescope;

- The first batch of OneWeb satellites has arrived at Baikonur;

- China, successful launch of two Beidou satellites into orbit;

- NGO "Android Technology" and the Japanese company "GITAI" plan to jointly create a robot for work on the surface of the Moon;

- USA, the 12th test flight of the ship "New Shepard" of the company "Blue Origin";

- Asteroid Hygeia in the lens of the telescope of the Crimean Observatory;

- Wine on the ISS, a new experiment.

Chronograph: 60 years of the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR "On the development of research in outer space".

Astrophoto of the week: supernova remnant N63A, from the Pleiades to the Hyades, time line.