space environment (№ 295 ) 02.09.2020 (2020)

New rocket engines and other projects, announcement of an interview with Igor Arbuzov, CEO of NPO Energomash.

Preparing the crews of the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft for flight.

The S.A. Lavochkin NGO continues work on the Arctic-M project.

Results of the Roscosmos Young Professionals 2020 Championship.

Modernization of the ISS satellite platform named after Academician M.F. Reshetnev.

Roscosmos was awarded a commemorative medal and a diploma for its selfless contribution to the organization of the All-Russian Mutual Aid Action #myvmeste, comments by Dmitry Shishkin and Maxim Ovchinnikov.

Roscosmos will take care of the historical monuments on the Borodino field.

The Vadim Zadorozhny Museum of Technology received a capsule of the descent vehicle of the Soyuz MS-05 manned spacecraft as a gift.

Comments by Dmitry Rogozin.

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- On September 1, 2020, asteroid 2011 ES4 flew past the Earth;

- Chinese probe "Tianwen-1" on its way to Mars;

- Planned correction of the ISS orbit;

- The solar panel is installed on the James Webb Space Telescope;

- Visualization of the accretion disk of a black hole;

- Ocean on Ceres.

Astrophoto of the week: celestial landscape in the constellation Cygnus; Titan, Saturn's moon; the Snail nebula.

The question about space: where does the compass needle point in orbit and is there a telescope on the ISS?