space environment №349 13.10.2021 (2021)

The Challenge project: filming and work on the ISS.

Vostochny, preparation for the launch of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with OneWeb communication satellites.

New production in JSC "RKS", comments of research engineer Maxim Kharlamov.

One line:

- Baikonur, preparation of the Progress MS-18 cargo ship;

- Voronezh, Chemical Automation Design Bureau transfers oxygen to hospitals, doctor Igor Banin's comment;

- Express-RV satellites;

- The launch of the Euclid telescope from the Kourou cosmodrome is scheduled for the end of 2022;

- Correction of the ISS orbit;

- Astronomers have determined the diameter of the nucleus of comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein C/2014 UN271;

- Flyby over Jupiter and Ganymede;

- Dmitry Rogozin and Belarusian Ambassador Vladimir Semashko considered the possibility of Belarus' participation in the construction of facilities at the Vostochny cosmodrome.

Chronograph: On October 12, 1964, the first multi-seat ship Voskhod-1 was launched.

Astrophoto of the week: NGC 6559 nebula in the constellation Sagittarius, moonlit night at the base camp at Lenin Peak in Kyrgyzstan, morning zodiac light.