Annual maintenance has begun on Vostochny.
Construction of the launch pad for the Angara launch vehicle continues.
The robot "Skybot F850" ("Fedor") works on the ISS.
Gagarin CPC, comprehensive training and examinations of the crews of the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft of the ISS-61/62 mission.
NPO Energomash is launching serial production of RD-171MV engines, says Peter Lovochkin.
The control center for suborbital flights from Virgin Galactic.
One line:
- Plesetsk, launch of the Rokot launch vehicle with a military satellite;
- Russian remote sensing devices conducted a survey of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas and Florida;
- The first image from the eROSITA telescope on board the Spektr-RG Observatory;
- The assembly of the James Webb Space Observatory ("James Webb") has been completed;
- An emergency alarm has been triggered on the ISS, the situation is under control, there is no threat to the crew;
- A strong magnetic storm hit the Earth;
- The Indian Vikram lander is preparing to land on the moon.
Astrophoto of the week: total solar eclipse and ashen moonlight, galaxy M61, "Eye of the Dragon".
Personnel:
Vladimir Putin is a statesman and politician, President of the Russian Federation, Master of Sports of the USSR in judo and sambo, Honored Coach of the Russian Federation, colonel of state Security in reserve, Candidate of Economic Sciences. Skvortsov A.A. - fighter pilot, test cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation. Ovchinin A.N. -- pilot-engineer, test cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation. Levochkin P.S. - Candidate of Technical Sciences, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky, Deputy General Director and Chief Designer of NPO Energomash named after V.P. Glushko. Skripochka O.I. -- pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation. Ryzhikov S.N. -- test cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation. T.G. Marshburn is an American doctor, cosmonaut, NASA astronaut. Meir D.U. -- PhD, NASA astronaut, Sweden's first female astronaut. Hazza Ali Abdan Khalfan Al-Mansouri is the first astronaut from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Sultan Al-Naidi (Al-Niyadi) is a candidate for the first set of astronauts in the UAE, Doctor of Philosophy, engineer.