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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)

Modern Problems of the Earth Remote Sensing - 2022

11/14/2022 - 16:30

Save The Date

On November 14 the 20th international conference "Modern Problems of the Earth Remote Sensing - 2022" started at IKI.
Volcanic Eruption From the Past

11/11/2022 - 10:45

Research

For the first time, the motion dynamics of an eruptive cloud, which formed during the catastrophic eruption of the Sheveluch volcano on November 11, 1964 (Volcanic Explosivity Index 4+), was reconstructed thanks to modern data processing methods and the databases of meteorological data.
Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC Telescope Follows Space Weather

11/01/2022 - 16:25

Mission Status

The X-ray telescope onboard Spektr-RG space observatory entered the second year of space weather monitoring in L2 point.
Getting grips on a strongly magnetized neutron star geometry

10/28/2022 - 12:11

Research

Researchers from the Space Research Institute and their colleagues determined geometrical parameters of a neutron star floating in the Galaxy 21,000 light years away. The finding confirms old ideas that this star precesses like a whirligig. The results were published in Nature Astronomy.
Twenty years of INTEGRAL

10/17/2022 - 11:16

Mission Status

Twenty years ago on October 17, 202, the INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory, or INTEGRAL, soared into space from Baikonur onboard Proton launcher.
Сачок для гамма-всплесков

10/14/2022 - 11:26

Исследования

9 октября 2022 года произошел один из самых ярких гамма-всплесков за всю историю их наблюдений. Он не попал в поле зрения телескопа ART-XC им. М.Н. Павлинского, но именно благодаря этому удалось надежно измерить кривую его блеска в жестком рентгеновском — мягком гамма-диапазонах. Как же это получилось?
"Space Week" at IKI

10/10/2022 - 11:11

Events

Every year on October 4-10 the World Space Week commemorates the launch of Sputnik and the beginning of space era, which started on October 4, 1957. In 2022 IKI scientists celebrated the the event with Space Science Days, popular lectures, and IKI Doors Open Day.
Asteroid Turns Into Comet

09/28/2022 - 17:28

Research

At night of September 26–27 RTT-150 optical telescope in Turkey observed asteroid Didymos and its smaller counterpart Dimorphos during the impact of DART mission (NASA). RTT-150 1.5-meter telescope is part of ground-based facilities in support of Spektr-RG project.
The Polytechnik Museum and Russian Science Foundation Open Exhibition "The Basement For the Future"

09/16/2022 - 11:29

Popular science

Professor Sergey Bartalev, the head of the laboratory at IKI and the leader of the project "Space science observatory of carbon in Russian forests" is one of the heroes of the exhibition.
Albert A. Galeev (1940–2022)

09/14/2022 - 10:28

In Memoriam

It is with deep sadness we pass on the news that Academician Dr. Albert A. Galeev, the director of IKI in 1988–2002, passed away on September 12, 2022.

IKI in Media Weekly Digests (in Russian)

11.04.2022 — 18.04.2022

April 18, 2022
04.04.2022 — 11.04.2022

April 11, 2022
28.03.2022 — 04.04.2022

April 4, 2022
21.03.2022 —28.03.2022

March 28, 2022

Conferences

IKI Media Service website (archive, in Russian)