space environment №323 31.03.2021 (2021)

Baikonur, preparation for the flight of the main and backup crews of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft.

Experiment "Sketch" to simulate a flight to the Moon on the ship "Eaglet".

Satellites of the Arctic-M grouping, space weather forecast.

Dmitry Rogozin's working meeting with the UAE delegation.

One line:

- "Korolev`s Readings" at Bauman Moscow State Technical University;

- A section with materials on the biography of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on the Roscosmos website;

- Cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov photographed the Suez Canal and the container ship "Ever Given" from orbit;

- Scientists of the Event Horizon Telescope project have presented a new image of a supermassive object in the center of the M87 galaxy;

- The discovery of French oenologists.

Chronograph: 55 years since the launch of the automatic interplanetary station "Luna-10".

Astrophoto of the week: stars and nebulae from Voznichy to Orion, star tracks over a lonely pine tree in the Yaroslavl region, the merger of two galaxies in the constellation of the Crow.

The question about space: to what temperatures does the lower part of the launch pad warm up when launching a rocket?