space environment (№ 272 ) 26.02.2020 (2020)

Baikonur: the beginning of preparations for the first manned spacecraft launch in 2020.

Vostochny: progress of construction, planned launches and general prospects.

Moscow: a new stage of the project "Open#Mosprom", a delegation of the Moscow City Hall and students of Bauman Moscow State Technical University on an excursion to VNIIEM.

Interview: Professor Valery Onufriev, student Rodion Sokolov, head of the NPC "Space Complexes" Alexander Vorontsov.

Seismic activity has been detected on Mars for the first time.

Moscow, round table "Low-orbit Satellite Systems and Information Technologies in Russia's Digital Infrastructure".

Fragments of reports: Pavel Cherenkov, General Director of JSC "Gonets Satellite System", Sergey Prokhorov, Head of the Sphere project.

One line:

- Meridian-M communications satellite launched into orbit;

- A new batch of OneWeb satellites has been delivered to Baikonur;

- With the help of the LOFAR radio telescope, astronomers discovered strong auroras on an exoplanet near the star GJ1151;

- Express-80 and Express-103 satellites delivered to Baikonur;

- Meeting of the heads of Roscosmos and ESA;

- Light echo from a supernova flare in the Centauri A galaxy.

Astrophoto of the week: the Christmas Tree and Cone nebulae in the Unicorn constellation, the Eskimo nebula ("Clown's Head"), the Keel nebula ("Treasure of the Southern Sky").

Do you know?

The color of the moon.