space environment №291 05.08.2020 (2020)

The module "Science" is ready to be sent to Baikonur, comments by Roman Khokhlov and Dmitry Rogozin, Deputy General Director of the Khrunichev State Scientific Research Center.

The Express-80 and Express-103 communication satellites have been put into orbit, according to Mikhail Aralkin, Deputy General Designer of the Salyut Design Bureau, Vladimir Bronfman, head of the Directorate of Commercial Programs of the Khrunichev State Scientific Research Center, and Sergey Borisov, adviser to the General Director of the Agat Organization.

Baikonur, an official agreement has been signed on the project of the Baiterek missile complex, comments by Dmitry Rogozin.

News from Mars: the ExoMars-2016 spacecraft has detected unknown absorption bands of ozone and carbon dioxide in the planet's atmosphere, comment by Alexander Trokhimovsky.

The preparation of the ExoMars-2022 project continues, says Daniil Rodionov, the scientific director of the project from the Russian side.

Russian scientific instruments for the Luna-25 spacecraft.

One line:

- The next crew on the ISS will launch in October 2020 on the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft;

- Space tourism in 2021;

- A cloud over a Martian volcano;

- 3D microelectronics from RKS.

Astrophoto of the week: a selection of images of comet C/2020 F3 "Neowise".

The question of space: how to determine the weight in orbit, in zero gravity?

Cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka answers.