space environment (№ 263 ) 11.12.2019 (2019)

The Progress MS-13 cargo ship delivered the cargo to the ISS.

ExoMars 2020: mission preparation, test trials in France, comments by Igor Mitrofanov.

The Meteor-M hydrometeorological satellite No. 2-2 has passed flight tests.

Vladimir Trofimov, Deputy Head of the Department of Integrated Design of Electrical Tests of Spacecraft of the VNIIEM Corporation, tells about the capabilities of the satellite.

The Japanese probe "Hayabusa-2" returns to Earth.

Students of the Cosmonaut A.G. Nikolaev School have discovered a new island in the Arctic with the help of remote sensing satellite data, say Nikita Ilyin, a schoolboy, and Artem Makarenko, the head of the Earth Remote Sensing project.

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- Blocks of the Proton-M launch vehicle have been sent to Baikonur;

- Scientists have discovered a giant planet next to a white dwarf star;

- Asteroid-comet;

- Periods of rotation of planets on a relative scale, animation;

- Uralkriomash is sending another batch of equipment to Vostochny;

- The heaviest black hole.

Astrophoto of the week: Europa (Jupiter's satellite) in a new treatment, the Milky Way over the lighthouse in Uruguay, two fragments of comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachman.

The question of space: phases of the Moon.