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На пленарном заседании «Следующая остановка: Луна и далее» (Next Stop: The Moon and Beyond) 8 мая 2025 г. в ходе международной конференции по освоению космического пространства (Global Space Exploration Conference — GLEX-2025) выступил член-корреспондент РАН Анатолий Петрукович, директор ИКИ РАН.

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).

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.

International Forum for Scientific Youth «Step into the Future», dedicated to the 195th anniversary of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, is underway in Moscow on March 24–28, 2025. On March 25, the participants of two sections presented their findings at IKI.