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On December 25, 2024, delegation of cosmonauts and specialists from Yu. A. Gagarin Research & Test Cosmonaut Training Center visited IKI.

On December 25, 2024 Resurs-P №5 spacecraft was successfully launched from Baikonur cosmodrome and inserted into the planned orbit.

IKI scientist and her colleagues used the data gathered by SWARM low-orbit spacecraft (ESA) and MERRA atmospheric reanalyses to investigate the effects caused by major earthquake M7, which occured on January 22, 2024.

Using numerical models, IKI astrophysicists suggested the mechanism underlying the formation of rapidly moving neutron stars.

Scientists use the instruments onboard TGO (ESA/Roscosmos), Mars Express, and Venus Express (ESA) Martian orbiters to study the subtleties of the planet's atmospheric composition.

One of the urgent problems in space plasma studies is the way magnetic energy, stored in the Earth's magnetotail as a result of interactions with the solar wind, turns into kinetic energy, i.e. energy of hot plasma motion. IKI scientists get closer to the answer using data of MMS mission.

Satellite data analysis shows that swamp territories in Russia are being colonized by trees. On an average, in 2001–2022 about 430 thousand hectares of forests growing on the swamp territories add annualy to the total forest area of the country.

Scientists at IKI and Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences study the heavy fuel oil spill using satellite radar data and SeeTheSea information system.

Using data gathered by Russian LEND neutron telescope onboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, IKI scientists studied water ice distribution within lunar polar craters Cabeus and Galimov.

In 2024, IKI scientists and their colleagues completed the analysis of the data from the Milky Way central region deep survey and the first five all-sky surveys (2019–2022) made by Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC telescope onboard Spektr-RG X-ray observatory.