space environment №299 30.09.2020 (2020)

Three Gonets-M satellites have been successfully launched into orbit.

Comments on: Dean of the Faculty of Space Research of Moscow State University Vasily Sazonov, General Director of JSC "Satellite System "Gonets" Pavel Cherenkov, Head of the Directorate for the application of satellite systems of JSC "Satellite System "Gonets" Maxim Diordiev.

The crews of the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft are undergoing pre-flight training at Baikonur.

An air leak on the ISS has been established, restoration work is underway.

36 OneWeb satellites are being prepared for launch at the Vostochny cosmodrome.

Roscosmos supports the Space Technologies engineering program for gifted schoolchildren.

Comments on: Maya Maysuradze (Head of the Vzlet Educational Center), Dmitry Shishkin (Roscosmos).

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- ISS, scheduled spacewalks;

- MCC, visit of the head of the FMBA;

- Fully Russian ISS crew;

- Baikonur, CENKI starts reconstruction of the Zenit launch pad as part of the Baiterek program;

- In the lens of the "Event Horizon Telescope";

- Salt lakes under the glaciers of Mars.

Astrophotography of the week: Andromeda galaxy and the Moon, the ISS and the planet Mars; pseudo-planetary nebula NGC 6164 in the constellation of the Polygon.