space environment №279 29.04.2020 (2020)

The Progress MS-14 transport cargo ship delivered cargo to the ISS in record time.

After returning to Earth, cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka took part in the Constellation experiment on the Exit-2 simulator.

China's Mars Program.

One line:

- At the Lavochkin NGO, work has begun on the creation of the Fregat-SBU upper stage;

- New systems from RKS;

- Animation of Saturn and its moons;

- NPO Energomash adapts the RD-180 engine for the Soyuz-6 rocket;

- Evacuation of specialists from French Guiana;

- Asteroid 1998 QE2 flew past Earth;

- Roscosmos has been named the most attractive employer in the field of mechanical engineering;

- COMET C2020 F8 SWAN;

- A new ultra-fast flight scheme to the ISS, comments by Raphael Murtazin.

Chronograph: 70 years of OKB-1.

Astrophoto of the week: Running Chicken nebula; galactic smile of Virgo constellation, zodiac light in Chile.

The question about space: why are experiments carried out on the ISS?