space environment (№ 284 ) 03.06.2020 (2020)

Satellite system for tracking space debris.

Candidates for cosmonauts of the 2018 set completed training on board the laboratory aircraft.

Tests of the upgraded TS-18 descent simulator have begun at the Gagarin Central Research Center.

One line:

- Approved the crew lists of the Soyuz MS-17;

- Successful launch and docking with the ISS of the Crew Dragon spacecraft;

- Specialist of NPO Energomash Alexander Afanasyev;

- China, successful launch of the Long March 11 rocket.

- Shipment of RD-191 engines for Angara missiles;

- The Osiris-Rex spacecraft made a low flyby over the asteroid Bennu;

- "Roscosmos" creates a single industry IT integrator "RK-Digit";

- Solar Flares;

- Meteorite fall.

Chronograph: Baikonur is 65 years old.

Astrophoto of the week: The Milky Way over the Himalayas in Nepal, the "interstellar monster" in the Keel nebula, the Earth and the Moon through the rings of Saturn.