News and Events (in Russian for the time being)

During Space Week in Russia and on the eve of Cosmonautics Day (aka International Day of Human Space Flight), IKI RAS held its traditional open day for schoolchildren, students, and everyone interested in space. This year it was held jointly with the Polytechnic Museum, which prepared an extensive program of events for children and adults — the family festival “It's a Technology Matter: Space”. A recording of the festival’s lecture program is available.

Scientists from Russian consortium of SRG/eROSITA telescope carried out the most detailed study of W50 nebula with SS433 binary system. The paper presenting the results of the study was published in Astronomy&Astrophysics.

The European Astronomical Society and Frits Zwicky Foundation awarded the 2026 Fritz Zwicky Prize for Astrophysics & Cosmology to Prof. Academician Rashid Sunyaev for his pioneering work on the cosmic microwave background and the theory of disk accretion.

All-Russian Forum of Scientific Youth took place in Moscow on 23–27 March 2026, bringing together more than 900 young researchers from all over the country.

Динамика вегетации озимых культур под урожай 2026 года в Республике Крым на спутниковых снимках.

Solar Radio Spectropolarimeter, aka SRSP, in the Northern Caucausus, commissioned in March 2025, carried a series of observations of intense X-class solar flares in November 2025. Preliminary results of the study were presented at the 21st conference "Plasma Physics in Solar System".

Balkanian cyclone brought heavy snowfalls to European part of Russia on 19 February 2026. Its effect on the landscape from 17 to 19 February can be traced thanks to MSU-MR instrument aboard Meteor-M No. 2-3 satellite. Images are built with the help of BEGA-Science Information system developed at IKI.

On 12 February 2026 Proton-M rocket launcher with DM-03 booster lifted off from Baikonur cosmodrome, carrying Elektro-L No.5 mission for Earth remote sensing. Thr spacecraft was successfully inserted into geostationary orbit more than 35 thousand kilometer high. IKI Special Desing Bureau for Space Instrument enigeneering contributed to its payload.

Annual conference opened at IKI on 9 February 2026 г.

4 февраля 2026 г. в ИКИ РАН состоялась рабочая встреча с советником по космосу отдела взаимодействия по техническим вопросам Индийской организации космических исследований (ISRO) посольства Индии в Москве господином Сриваставой Анупом Кумаром.