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space environment (2019 № 217 ) 16.01.2019

The Millimetron space telescope will replace Radioastron, comments by Yuri Kovalev and Rashid Syunyaev.

One line:

- MSU (multi-zone scanning devices) from RKS;

- Superheavy launch vehicle "Yenisei";

- The Kurs-MKP system for docking ships with the ISS has been successfully tested;

- "Dragon-2" will fly in February;

- Chang'e-4 grows cotton on the moon.

Eastern vector: PJSC "Cryogenmash" and JSC "Tyazhmash", comments by Maria Sokolova and Vladislav Trifonov.

The first flight of Blue Origin is scheduled for spring 2019.

The Milky Way will collide with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years.

Chronograph: the 50th anniversary of the first docking of the two "Unions", recalls Boris Volynov.

Astrophoto of the year: stars, meteors and a comet in Taurus; ice halos around the Sun; the Orion infrared nebula.

Personnel

Kovalev Yu.Yu. - Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
R.A. Syunyaev is an astrophysicist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chief Researcher at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Max Planck Society Institute of Astrophysics in Garching.
P.N. Vlasov -- Captain of the Russian Air Force, 1st class test pilot, Hero of the Russian Federation, Head of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (since 2017).
Krikalev S.K. is an aviation athlete, cosmonaut, development engineer, candidate of Psychological Sciences, academician of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics named after K.E.Tsiolkovsky.
Volynov B.V. - pilot-cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
Sokolova M.S. is a Russian economist, CEO of PJSC Cryogenmash.
Trifonov V.A. - Director of the business unit for special equipment, Deputy General Director of JSC Tyazhmash.