space environment №217 16.01.2019 (2019)

The Millimetron space telescope will replace Radioastron, comments by Yuri Kovalev and Rashid Syunyaev.

One line:

- MSU (multi-zone scanning devices) from RKS;

- Superheavy launch vehicle "Yenisei";

- The Kurs-MKP system for docking ships with the ISS has been successfully tested;

- "Dragon-2" will fly in February;

- Chang'e-4 grows cotton on the moon.

Eastern vector: PJSC "Cryogenmash" and JSC "Tyazhmash", comments by Maria Sokolova and Vladislav Trifonov.

The first flight of Blue Origin is scheduled for spring 2019.

The Milky Way will collide with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years.

Chronograph: the 50th anniversary of the first docking of the two "Unions", recalls Boris Volynov.

Astrophoto of the year: stars, meteors and a comet in Taurus; ice halos around the Sun; the Orion infrared nebula.