space environment (№ 352 ) 03.11.2021 (2021)

The Progress MS-18 cargo ship as part of the ISS.

Baikonur, preparation for the launch of the Berth node module.

Cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov took part in the population census, comments by Galina Sheverdova (Rosstat).

The start of the 3rd stage of the isolation experiment "Sirius-2021".

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- Vostochny Cosmodrome News;

- RD-171MV rocket engine for the Soyuz-5 launch vehicle;

- Baikonur, preparation for the launch of the Soyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft;

- The ART-XC telescope registered a fourfold increase in the background X-ray signal due to solar flares;

- The "Vampire" experiment on growing crystals in space, comments by the staff of the V.P. Barmin Research Institute of IC Andrey Burmistrov and Alexander Egorov;

- Guiana Space Center, preparation for the launch of the Soyuz-ST launch vehicle;

- Baikonur, refueling operations of the Express-AMU3 spacecraft have been completed;

- Baikonur, preparatory work on the Baiterek space rocket complex.

Chronograph: 1997, in honor of the 40th anniversary of the launch of the first artificial satellite of the Earth, cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov manually launched a smaller copy of the satellite created by schoolchildren of Russia and France - Sputnik-40.

Astrophoto of the week: the road to the center of the Galaxy, the Bat nebula NGC 6995, the Krabbe Peninsula in Primorye.