space environment №275 18.03.2020 (2020)

The main and backup crews of the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft have completed pre-flight training.

The launch of the second ExoMars mission has been postponed to 2022.

The declassified military station "Almaz" and the return vehicle of the TKS (supply transport ship) at the exhibition in MY, comments of Viktor Beregovoy.

The Russian nanosatellite "Swan".

One line:

- The Council of Young Scientists of Roscosmos;

- Baikonur, completion of tests of the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft;

- Kuru, cancellation of the launch activity of the GCC;

- DECam camera finds dwarf planets;

- Correction of the ISS orbit;

- A new spot in the Sun;

- The Saturn-like exoplanet 1SWASPJ1407b has been discovered;

- Timelapse of the large Orion nebula over Mount Etna.

Chronograph: 55 years of the first spacewalk.

The Y.A. Gagarin CPC is 60 years old.

The question about space: what are ships and rockets and what are their differences?

Astrophoto of the week: extreme explosion of a black hole from the Ophiuchus cluster, dance of galaxies, Moon-Saturn over Guatemala.