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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)

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.
A Strange Case of Carbon-13

05/18/2023 - 12:31

Research

Atmospheric Chemistry Suite, the Russian instrument onboard ExoMars TGO orbiter, found that carbon monoxide in Martian atmosphere yields less heavy carbon isotopes 13C than 'light" 12C. Results of the study have been recently published in Nature Astronomy.
From Mare Fecunditatis to Oceanus Procellarum

04/23/2023 - 23:32

Events

Russia and China mutually exchanged Moon samples, which had been delivered to the Earth by Luna-16 and Chang'e-5 missions.
In Search For Hidden Carbon

04/21/2023 - 12:00

Research

A new information system Uglerod-E developed at IKI will be used to monitor carbon ("uglerod" is Russian for "carbon") in the forests and other ecosystems.
20th Meeting of Young Scientists at IKI

04/19/2023 - 10:04

Events

On April 12, 2023, on the Cosmonautics Day, the 20th Conference of Young Scientists began at IKI. For three days more than 200 students and researchers presented their scientific results in various fields of space science.
IKI Doors Open Day

04/17/2023 - 11:50

Save The Date

On April 15, 2023 IKI welcomed everyone interested in space at our Doors Open Day dedicated to Yuri Gagarin's first flight in space. The program included tours around the exhibition and popular lectures about Moon exploration and astrochemistry, which are now available on the web (in Russian).

IKI in Media Weekly Digests (in Russian)

13.12.2021 — 20.12.2021

December 20, 2021

Conferences

IKI Media Service website (archive, in Russian)