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space environment 2018 № 207 24.10.2018

"BepiColombo" is flying to Mercury.

Senior Researcher of the Department of Nuclear Paleontology of the ICI RAS Alexander Kozyrev talks about the device of the MGNS (Mercurian gamma-neutron spectrometer).

Artificial Moon.

Modern plans of Chinese scientists and the Russian project of 1993 "Banner-2", says the project developer Nadezhda Tatarnikova.

One line:

- RKS and public transport;

- NPO Energomash, a mock-up of the RD-171M V engine for the Soyuz-5 launch vehicle;

- ISS crew;

- A new dwarf planet 2015 TG387 "Goblin" has been discovered;

- Mars in Antarctica, the 64th Russian Antarctic Expedition starts;

- Sun dance.

Chronograph: 50 years of the flight of the Soyuz-3 spacecraft with cosmonaut Beregov.

Astrophoto of the week: the crescent of Venus over the hills of Romania, observers of the launch of the Falcon-9 on the ocean, a globular star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Personnel

Mitrofanov I.G. - Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Head of the Department of Nuclear Planetology of the Institute of Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Beregovoy G.T. is a Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Honored Test Pilot of the USSR, Major General of Aviation, Candidate of Psychological Sciences, veteran of the Second World War.
Baklanov O.D. - Soviet economic and political figure, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR (1983-1988), Hero of Socialist Labor.