News and Events (in Russian for the time being)

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.

After 22.5 years of successful operation ESA's INTEGRAL international orbital observatory, launched in 2002 by Russia, completed its scientific mission.

The team of astrophysicists from IKI and other organizations used X-ray data collected by SRG/eROSITA telescope onboard Spektr-RG observatory to look into the hot interior of the S147/Spaghetti nebula and explain its unusual properties.

28th February in Russia is Arctic Day. Satellite remote sensing data are crucial for those, who study and work here. IKI scientists develop special algorithms for satellite microwave radiometry and run subsatellite experiments to refine the models, which are used for data processing. Results of such experiment, organized together with Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute and Atomflot, are already included in the database of IKI-Monitoring center of collective use.

In February 2025 in-flight tests of the MVN All-Sky X-ray Monitor installed on the outer side of the International Space Station have been successfully completed.