SPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Space Research Institute
Russian Academy of Sciences

Space Research Institute
Russian Academy of Sciences

News and Events (in Russian for the time being)

IKI Team Goes To Vostochnyi

07/25/2023 - 07:08

Mission Status

July 24, 2023, a team of IKI scientists and engineers left for Vostochnyi cosmodrome for closing works on Luna-25 scientific payload before the spacecraft starts for the Moon.
New Exploration of the New Moon: Discoveries Will Folow

07/17/2023 - 14:35

Research

Luna-25 mission, which is scheduled for launch in August 2023, is the first Russian new-generation-lander to study Moon.
Space On Earth

07/14/2023 - 15:31

Education

First School on experimental laboratory astrophysics and geophysics of the National Centre For Physics and Mathematics ended on July 14, 2023.
Spektr-RG: Four Years And Counting

07/13/2023 - 21:45

Mission Status

On July 13, 2023 Spektr-RG space observatory marks its fourth year since the launch. More that 1.1 terabytes of telemetry data have been downstreamed to the Earth, which later turned into tens of terabytes of scientific data. More than 70 papers have been already published, which investigate hundreds and thousands of X-ray sources.
Russian Science Foundation to Support Young Scientists

07/12/2023 - 13:12

Events

On July 11, 2023 RSF announced the results of three 2023 competitions for young scientists.
KMSS-2 First Images

07/04/2023 - 16:23

Mission Status

First images by Satellite Multiband Imaging System (KMSS-2) onboard Meteor-M №2-3 meteosat show the shores of Turkey and Norway.
IKI Instruments to Look At Sun and Earth

06/30/2023 - 15:35

Mission Status

On Tuesday, June 27 Meteor-M №2-3 satellite was launched from Vostochny together with 42 small spacecraft.
IXPE Finds Polarization of the X-ray Emission From Molecular Clouds in the Milky Way's Centre

06/21/2023 - 19:36

Research

This finding confirms the hypothesis that the supermassive black hole in the center of our Galaxy once had been much more active that it is now. The results are published in the Nature journal.
Transient X-ray Pulsar RX J0440.9+4431 Switched To the Super-Critical Regime of Accretion For the First Time...

06/05/2023 - 10:46

Research

…and went back again. Literally all X-ray space observatories studied this outburst in 2023, and among them was Integral. The paper with the first results of the observations was sent to MNRAS and published on arXiv.org. The picture from the paper was selected as the June 2023 Picture of the Month of the Integral observatory.
Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XС Telescope Examines the Supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy

06/01/2023 - 11:16

Mission Status

Supernova SN 2023ixf, which blasted on May 18 in the Pinwheel Galaxy M101, appeared to become more and more bright in X-rays even after its optical luminosity started to fade. The results of the observations were published in Astronomer's Telegram.

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