space environment №302 21.10.2020 (2020)

Roscosmos held a videoconference with the participation of cosmonauts and technical management of rocket and space industry enterprises.

Shift change to the ISS: Sergey Ryzhikov took command of the station, the crew of the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft is preparing to return to Earth.

IMBP RAS, experiment "Dry immersion" for women.

Vostochny, the installation of technological equipment has been completed ahead of schedule.

Baikonur, the start of the project "Sambo to school".

The probe "BepiColombo", the first approach to Venus, says Alexander Kozyrev.

Ark biological satellite, launch plan in 2024.

Progress RCC has started the preliminary design of the reusable Amur-LNG rocket.

One line:

- New radio lines from RKS;

- Cosmonaut Sergey Ryazansky became the winner of the Alexander Belyaev Literary Prize for 2020, the book "Is it possible to hammer a nail in space";

- The Osiris-Rex spacecraft landed on the asteroid Bennu;

- New data on Betelgeuse;

- Flight over Jupiter, video from the Juno spacecraft.

Do you know?

International legal status for satellites.

Astrophoto of the week: cosmic landscape near the center of the Milky Way, nebulae in the constellation Cygnus, opposition of Mars and Earth on October 13, 2020.