space environment №304 04.11.2020 (2020)

ISS: 20 years in manned mode.

Interview: cosmonauts Sergey Krikalev, Talgat Musabaev, Sergey Prokopyev, astronaut Timothy Kopra, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin, editor of Vostok magazine and Chairman of the Moscow Collectors Club Ruslan Titov.

Russia and Kazakhstan have signed additional agreements to the Baiterek project.

Vostochny, delivery of auxiliary equipment for OneWeb satellites.

The feature film "The Challenge": casting for the main role and a flight into space.

The successful performance of the Roscosmos team at the 7th national championship of end-to-end working professions "World Skills Hi-Tech - 2020", comments by Dmitry Shishkin.

The first in Russia knee module "Active-2", a unique development of "Roscosmos", says the head of the sector of the Novgorod branch of JSC "NPK "SPP" Artem Kozin and doctor Dmitry Botvin.

A new discovery of astronomers: an "orphan" planet of the Earth type.

One line:

- Meeting on financing and development of the Russian rocket and space industry;

- The composition of the first fully Russian crew in the history of the ISS has been approved;

- NPO Energomash, successful firing tests of the RD-180 rocket engine for Atlas-5 family launch vehicles;

- Planned correction of the ISS orbit;

- The Berth module for the Russian segment of the ISS.

Astrophoto of the week: "The moon is sinking" (an annular solar eclipse on June 21, 2020 over the Arabian Sea), an Auroral red arch against the background of the Milky Way (mid-latitude aurora in Sweden), the "Heart" of the Crab Nebula.

The question of space: how is the payload mass calculated for launching into space?

Comment by Sergey Volkov.