space environment (№ 229 ) 10.04.2019 (2019)

Production of the Russian Yamal-601 communications satellite has been completed in France.

The Israeli Bereshit spacecraft has entered lunar orbit and is preparing to land on the moon.

The AZURE experiment: the study of the aurora borealis and the solar wind.

One line:

- The first image of a black hole;

- Progress MS-11 showed a record flight time to the ISS;

- The Japanese probe "Hayabusa-2" made a crater on the asteroid Ryugu;

- The Parker solar probe made a second flyby near the Sun;

- Modernization at the Crimean Observatory;

- ESA's Hera mission to the asteroid Didymos;

- The Festival of space cinema in the cities of Baikonur and Tsiolkovsky.

Chronograph: "Yuri's Night-2019".

Astrophoto of the week: the Horsehead nebula, Saturn and the Moon, the Bubble nebula NGC 7635 in the constellation Cassiopeia.