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Scientists and engineers from Russia and Panama discuss the opportunities for the development of space sceince and international cooperation in the field.

The exhibition is the part of the ХХVIII International Conference of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent).

On October 1–5, 2024, International conference on space education "Road To Space – 2024" at IKI gathered more than 200 participants, who discussed modern challenges in space education. The meeting was dedicated to the anniversary of Sputnik launch on October 4th and includeы satellite events open to public.

New model developed by IKI scientists and their colleagues from Ioffe Institute sheds new light on the origin of W50 giant radio nebula, which hides the most reknown X-ray object of our Galaxy – SS433 microquasar.

From its inauguration in 2018 and up to the end in the current year, the program supplied more than 9 000 workplaces for researchers, including 6 000 for young scientists. Two Youth Labs opened at IKI. Further steps will be done within the National Project "Youth and Children".

Presentation of the future monument and dedicated exhibition on September 4, 2024 at the Academician Keldysh Square in Moscow.

On August 8, 2024 BTN-M1 instrument onboad Russian segment of the ISS resumed gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) monitoring together with Russian neutron spectrometer HEND (onboard NASA's Mars Odyssey mission). Just the day after they detected new GRB240809A from hypernova at a distance z ~ 1.5.

Using data from ACS spectrometer onboard TGO spacecraft, IKI scientist Ekaterina Starichenko and her colleagues studied gravity waves in Martian atmosphere, from the surface to the 160-km height, and the effect, which seasonal changes and dust storms have upon them. Results were published in the Astronomy&Astrophysics.

Six special centers for collective use formed a new consortium "Distributed Scientific Supercomputer Infrastructure".

On August 15, 2024 Soyuz-2.1a rocket launcher blasted off the launch pad at Baikonur cosmodrome carrying Progress MS-28 cargo spaceship to the International Space Station. Its payload includes All-Sky-Monitor X-ray spectrometer, made at IKI, which will study the X-ray background radiation with unprecedented accuracy. Docking to the ISS is scheduled for August 17, 2024.