space environment (№ 341 ) 18.08.2021 (2021)

Baikonur, preparation for the launch of the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle and the launch of OneWeb communications satellites.

6 corporate championship "Young professionals of Roscosmos - 2021".

The Progress RCC sent two Soyuz-2 launch vehicles to Baikonur.

Menzelinsk, special parachute training of candidates for test cosmonauts.

General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin at the Tver Carriage Building Plant.

An agreement between Roscosmos and the space agencies of the BRICS countries.

Roscosmos and Tunisia: cooperation in the field of manned cosmonautics.

One line:

- The flight of the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft with space tourists to the ISS will take place according to a four-turn scheme;

- Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov will go into outer space to carry out work on the integration of the Nauka module.

Chronograph: August 18 is the birthday of the Siberian cosmonautics.

Astrophoto of the week: a meteor from the Perseid stream, taken from the ISS; the Milky Way and the base camp at Lenin Peak in the Pamirs; ammonia clouds of Jupiter's atmosphere.

The question of space: flights outside the plane of the ecliptic.