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Anatoly Petrukovich, Director of IKI, discussed the problems of future space exploration at the plenary session 'Next Stop: The Moon and Beyond' on May 8, 2025, during the Global Space Exploration Conference — GLEX-2025, in New Delhi, India.

On May 10, 2025, Kosmos-482 satellite, a twin spacecraft of Venera-8 interplanetary mission, re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and fell into the Indian Ocean. It was launched in 1972, but remained in orbit around the Earth due to a malfunction of the upper stage. IKI scientistis give their comments on the event.

Dear colleagues, dear friends. We congratulate you on Victory Day of the Great Patriotic War!

From April 21 to 23, the XXII Conference of Young Scientists "Fundamental and Applied Space Research" took place at IKI.

On April 24, 2025, at the opening of 2025 Space Day of China, the project of the automatic lunar station Chang'E-8 was presented. Its scientific payload includes two instruments to be developed by the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences under the agreements between the Roscosmos State Corporation and the China National Space Administration (CNSA).

From December 2024 to April 2025 IKI showed some of the items of its museum at the exhibition "The Sun and the lIfe of the Earth" at Konstantin Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics.

April 12, 2025, on the Cosmonautics Day, IKI opens its doors to everyone interested in space and science!

It was not a joke: on the first day of the month the number of energetic solar protons near the Lagrange point L2 increased significantly to around 14 counts per second. This was almost 7 times higher than usual background, registered by ART-XC detectors, and the most prominent rise in 5 years of monitoring Sun's activity.

April, 2, 2025 Russian Science Foundation published the lists of winners of three grant competitions. Among the projects of the individual scientific groups to be supported by RSF are the projects led by IKI researchers.

On April 1, 2025, IKI hosted Space Research and Modern Astrophysics session of MIPT Landau School for Physics and Research.