space environment №321 17.03.2021 (2021)

Baikonur, preparation for the launch of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle.

The ISS-65 crews passed the exam on manual controlled descent.

The beginning of the technical design of the Russian part of the Venera-D station, comments by Lyudmila Zasova.

One line:

- Experiment "Monitor of the whole sky";

- Underwater telescope in Lake Baikal;

- Unusual EXOPLANET GJ 1132b;

- How falling cars sound.

Chronograph: 5 years of the launch of the first ExoMars-2016 mission, comments by Alexander Trokhimovsky.

Astrophoto of the week: Pillars of Creation in the Eagle nebula, Mars and the zodiacal light, T Taurus - a shrinking protostar.