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)

Expanding the Universe

07/26/2024 - 20:21

Events

Academician Gennady Krasnikov, president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, visited IKI in praise of the 5th anniversary of Spektr-RG launch.
New Lava Dome Born On the Slope Of Sheveluch Volcano, Named '300 Years Of the RAS'

07/22/2024 - 09:34

Research

Scientists from Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Computing Center of the RAS Far-Eastern Branch, IKI and Planeta Center For Space Hydrometeorology made the discovery, using satellite data and VolSatView infromation system. By the early June, 2024 the dome was already 100 meter high.
Spektr-RG — Five Years And Counting!

07/13/2024 - 12:00

Mission Status

On July 13, 2019, Proton rocket launcher with DM-03 booster blasted off from Baikonur cosmodrome, carrying Russian X-ray observatory Spektr-RG. Today, we name some — but by no means the only — fascinating results of its work in these five years.
All-Sky Monitor In The Hydro Lab

07/10/2024 - 11:17

Mission Status

On July 1st and 2nd cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner practised EVA elements with the payload for All-Sky Monitor experiment (MVN) in the Yu. A. Gagarin Research & Test Cosmonaut Training Center.
Second School On Experimental Laboratory Astrophysics And Geophysics of the National Centre For Physics and Mathematics

07/09/2024 - 16:35

Education

From 1st to 5th July, the School was attented by more than 80 researchers, who discussed various problems relating to laboratory modelling of the astrophysical processes, search for life on exoplanets, and other urgent questions of astrophysics, geophysics, and space physics.
Sculptor Lyubov Savelieva Has Presented Her Work Of Art To IKI

07/05/2024 - 11:01

Events

"Spacesuit" — this is the name of the sculpture, which was officially presented to IKI at the ceremony at Russian Academy Of Arts on July 3, 2024.
Winners Of the New Presidential Scholarship For Postgraduate Students Announced

07/01/2024 - 17:01

Events

Among them is IKI junior researcher Sergey Korolkov, also a postgraudate student of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Ten Years And A Half Near The Moon

06/24/2024 - 20:29

Mission Status

Russian neutron telescope LEND aboard LRO mission (NASA) marks its 15th anniversary near the Moon on June 19, 2024. Having orbited the Moon for more than 66 thousand times, it transmitted around 105 terabytes of scientific data and registered around 20 billion lunar neutrons, We publish a new map of water ice distribution in the lunar shallow surface near the South Pole of the Moon.
Academician Rashid Sunyaev: Fifty Years At IKI

06/17/2024 - 12:38

Events

On June 17, 2024 Academician Dr. Rashid Sunyaev celebrated the 50th year of his work at Space Research Institute.
Sun Hits Mars

06/07/2024 - 12:43

Research

On 20th May 2024 IKI instuments, working near the Red Planet, caught it and stayed safe.

IKI in Media Weekly Digests (in Russian)

13.12.2021 — 20.12.2021

December 20, 2021

Conferences

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