space environment №305 11.11.2020 (2020)

ISS and CPC, preparation for a spacewalk.

Small spacecraft of the Berkut family for the Sphere project, says Sergey Prokhorov, Director of the Department of Advanced Programs of Roscosmos.

"Angara-A5", news from the Khrunichev State Scientific Research Center, tell the chief designer of the KRK "Angara" Dmitry Petrov, deputy general designer of the Design Bureau "Salyut" Alexey Yamilinets.

The Spectrum RG Space Observatory is on the verge of new discoveries, says Sergey Sazonov.

The 50th anniversary of the Luna-17 mission, says Andrey Kurakin, head of the Department for the preservation and Accounting of archival documents of RGANTD, Marina Vlasova, director of RGANTD, Vyacheslav Dovgan, operator of Lunokhod-1.

Kaluga, the State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics named after K.E. Tsiolkovsky, the director of the museum Natalia Abakumova tells about the reconstruction and modernization.

One line:

- Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin's working meeting with State Duma deputies, comments by Denis Kravchenko;

- Helicopter training of astronauts in the CPC;

- Osiris-Rex spacecraft, sampling of soil samples from the surface of the asteroid Bennu, video;

- France, testing of the ExoMars-2022 device;

- India, successful launch of the PSLV launch vehicle to launch satellites into polar orbit;

- The Hubble Space Telescope has launched a new observation program "ULLYSES";

- South Africa, the opening of the monument (bust) to Yuri Gagarin in the city of Hermanus (Hermanus).

Astrophoto of the week: Sun in clouds, Three-part nebula, globular star cluster 47 Toucan "Treasure of the southern sky".

The question about space: under what conditions do wandering planets appear outside the Solar system?