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19 декабря 2024 г. во время выхода в открытый космос по программе ВКД-63 космонавты Алексей Овчинин и Иван Вагнер установили на универсальное рабочее место (УРМ) на внешней поверхности служебного модуля «Звезда» Международной космической станции моноблок МВН, являющийся составной частью космического эксперимента «Монитор всего неба» (КЭ МВН). Космонавт Александр Горбунов помогал в проведении данных работ своим коллегам изнутри станции.

Annual all-Russian conference "High Energy Astrophyiscs Today And Tomorrow 2024", aka HEA–2024, starts on Monday, December 23 at IKI.

New model developed by IKI astrophysicists and their colleagues and based on the data of SRG/eROSITA X-ray telescope, links the bright structure seen in our Galaxy to bubbles of hot gas that emerge from star-formation regions like smoke from the chimney.

December 4 to 10 A. D. Shvetsov Perm Aviation Technical College hosted the Second All-Russian Space Championship. bringing together more than 120 school students and 35 tutors, including IKI scientist, from 30 Russian regions.

December 3, 2024, the second stage of BTN-Neutron experiment commenced after the arrival of BTN-M2 scientific instument. Installed inside the RS ISS, it complements the BTN-M1 instrument operating on the external side of the RS ISS.

Scientific instruments onboard Ionosphere-M No 1 switched on for the first time from November 29 to December 4, 2024.

Having measured HCl and water ice abundance in Martian atmosphere with the ACS spectrometer onboard TGO mission, scientists showed that it is HCl uptake onto water ice cloud particles that can swiftly reduce the content of HCl in the atmosphere.

Russian Science Foundation announced the winners of grant competition for small scientific teams in 2024.

The Prime Minister of Russia, Mikhail Mishustin presented Government science and technology awards on November 27, 2024.

Plasma parameters on the borders of the heliosphere help small interstellar dust particles permeate deep into Solar system, according to a new model developed by IKI researchers Egor Godenko and Vladislav Izmodenov. This also suggest that we can study the properties of interstellar matter by measuring its characteristics in our closest neighbourhood.