"Vega" reports.. (1986)

Interior of the office of the director of the Institute of Space Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Academician Sagdeev R.Z.

The telephone is on the table.

Soviet and foreign scientists check calculations before the start of tests of the Vega space station.

Antenna of the Center for Deep Space Communications in the Crimea.

Scientists at the control panel.

The antenna of the tracking station "Bear Lakes" near Moscow.

Scientists of the Institute of Space Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences during the preparation for the flight of the Vega station.

The Vega-1 station is in space in orbit, the platform is deployed to the working position.

Employees of the space television center at work, the faces of scientists.

The image of Jupiter on the monitor screen in infrared radiation.

Scientists and engineers during the experiment.

Vega-1 station in the hangar during flight preparation.

Assembly of station nodes.

Research in the laboratory of ways to protect station equipment from micrometeors and dust particles.

Simulation on the monitor screen of the consequences of the station meeting with a comet (computer graphics).

Scientists are discussing one of the mathematical models of particle impacts on the surface of the station.

Multilayer anti-dust screens made of aluminum alloy, protecting the station from the effects of cosmic dust particles.

Ground tests of the station for strength.

View of a part of the station.

Transportation of the station inside the hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Launch of the Proton launch vehicle with a research station on board.

Interior view of the hall of the Mission Control Center (MCC), an employee of the Center in front of the monitors.

A station in the atmosphere of Venus (images on monitor screens).

The way of the station to meet Halley's comet on the monitor screen.

Diagram of the trajectory of a comet in the Solar system (animation).

Photos of the nucleus of Halley's comet and asteroids.

Photos of Halley's comet.

An astronomer observes with a telescope.

The chronometer dial.

Developing photos of Halley's comet, a bath with developer and photochemicals.

Bringing the telescope into working position.

An astronomer is observing through a telescope.

Photo of Halley's comet.

Meeting of the International Technical Committee of the Vega Project and the International Advisory Group of Space Agencies.

Academician Sagdeev speaks at the meeting.

Panorama of the meeting.

The participants of the meeting verify the data on the station's flight to Halley's comet.

The behavior of the comet nucleus under the rays of the Sun (animation).

The impact of the "solar wind" on the comet (animation).

The faces of ballistics scientists.

The flight path of the station on the monitor screen.

The nucleus of Halley's comet, surrounded by a gas-dust "blanket".

The station is in the hangar during the inspection, a view of an automatic rotary platform with television cameras and spectrometers installed on it.

Scientists receive and process data received from the station.

Halley's comet on the monitor screen.

The faces of Sagdeev and other scientists watching the comet.

The image of the comet on the monitor screen.

The faces of scientists.

Flight paths of stations orbiting Halley's comet on the monitor screen.

The European Space Agency's Giotto station is in flight.

Deputy head of the scientific project Polivanov and chief designer Kovtunenko in the control room.

Vega station is at a close distance from the comet nucleus.

Receipt and processing of information about the comet.

The nucleus of a comet on the monitor screen.

Scientists are watching the comet, the faces of scientists.

The image of the comet nucleus in color, the faces of scientists.

Photo of the comet nucleus.

Study of maps of the surface of planets with craters on them.

Photos of craters.

Photos of comets in outer space.

A painting depicting the fall of a comet to Earth in the age of dinosaurs.

A station in outer space bombarded by microscopic specks of comet dust (animation).

Scientists in the control center in front of the monitor screens.

The head of work from the Czechoslovak side speaks about the success of the meeting of the Vega station and Halley's comet, talks about the importance of this experiment for further space exploration (synchronously and off-screen).

Scientists process the received data.

Vega-2 station approaches the nucleus of Halley's comet (animation).

Images of the comet nucleus transmitted by the station on the monitor screen.

The faces of scientists.

Processing of data received from the station.

Scientists are observing the nucleus of Halley's comet.

Image of the composition of the comet nucleus on the monitor screen (spectrogram).

Photo of the comet nucleus.

Graphic image on the monitor screen of the sound vibrations of the comet.

The instrument panel of the oscilloscope.

Scientists during data processing.

European scientists at work on the Giotto project, a panorama of the flight control center of the Giotto station in Darmstadt.

Color spectrograms of the comet made by the Giotto station.

The Japanese Comet station is in flight.

Diagram of the Solar system.

Academician Sagdeev speaks about the end of the first stage of research inside the Solar System, about the discovery of new physical and cosmogonic phenomena, about the planet Earth as a unique corner of the Universe (synchronously).

A painting depicting a part of the universe.