space environment №155 19.04.2017 (2017)

Baikonur, Soyuz MS-04 on the eve of the launch, Fyodor Yurchikhin and Jack Fischer are preparing for the flight.

The 1st meeting of the expert council on the rocket and space industry was held in the State Duma.

New goals of "New Horizons".

One line:

- Dwarf planet Dee Dee;

- Peggy Whitson's Records;

- Gaia, the movement of the stars;

- The distant past of the Moon;

- The Lyrids are already falling.

Chronograph: the first communication satellite "Molniya-1".

Astrophoto of the week: a man, a dog and the Sun; fountains over Enceladus; the Syunyaev-Zeldovich effect, says Rashid Syunyaev.