space environment (№ 355 ) 01.12.2021 (2021)

VDNH, presentation of the Yuri Gagarin Awards at the Cosmonautics and Aviation Center.

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

The crew includes cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin and Japanese space tourists, entrepreneurs Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano.

Announcement of the live broadcast of the experiment "LAZMA".

NPP "Kvant", the conference "Photovoltaics-2021", proposals for the creation of new power supply systems for spacecraft.

The Kremlin presented the prize for popularization of the space industry "For loyalty to Science".

French Guiana, Kourou Cosmodrome, continuation of preparations for the launch of the Soyuz-ST-B launch vehicle.

Astrophoto of the week: a horse in the night against the background of the aurora borealis in Komi, a lunar eclipse (collage), gas and dust fibers in the "Andromeda Sleeves" near a supermassive black hole.

The question of space: how many modifications of the Soyuz manned spacecraft exist?