space environment (№ 335 ) 07.07.2021 (2021)

The astrophysical Observatory "Spektr-RG" was awarded the Marcel Grossman Prize, comment by Sergey Sazonov.

Sweden, the first successful high-altitude tests of the parachute system of the ExoMars-2022 mission, comment by Alexey Ivanov.

Tests of the onboard equipment of the command and measurement system for the Luna-25 automatic interplanetary station have begun at the RKS.

One line:

- A Russian ground-based space debris detection system will be deployed in South Africa;

- Roscosmos and representatives of the Mexican space company SpaceJLTZ held a working meeting;

- Chinese taikonauts worked in outer space for 7 hours;

- The next launches from the Vostochny cosmodrome will take place in the fall;

- Astronomers have discovered the smallest, but at the same time the most massive white dwarf.

Astrophoto of the week: a solar eclipse and a "paper" Moon in China, dancing auroras on Saturn, a canyon on the Oshagandy River in Kazakhstan.