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)

'General Rehearsal' of Luna-25 Scientific Instruments' Work On the Moon

08/07/2023 - 13:56

Mission Status

On August 7, 2023 Luna-25 science teams have successfully completed the 'general rehearsal' of the first stages of instruments' work on the Moon.
New Observatory Joins the Round Dance

08/02/2023 - 13:50

Research

Spektr-RG, James Webb Space Telescope, Gaia, and since the end of July, 2023, Euclid circle around L2 point in animations by Natan Eismon and Maxim Pupkov from the Department of Space Dynamics and Mathematical Information Processing.
Academician Lev Zelenyi On the Origin of Luna-25 Mission and Its Targets

07/28/2023 - 15:00

Mission Status

Before Luna-25 mission starts off to the Moon, as planned, in August 2023, we asked academician Lev Zelenyi, academic advisor of IKI and Principal Investigator of the mission, to share some details from Luna-25's long history and its main objectives.
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.

IKI in Media Weekly Digests (in Russian)

07.02.2022 — 14.02.2022

February 14, 2022
31.01.2022 — 07.02.2022

February 7, 2022
24.01.2022 — 31.01.2022

January 31, 2022
17.01.2022 — 24.01.2022

January 24, 2022

Conferences

IKI Media Service website (archive, in Russian)