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)

Roscosmos: Flight Tests of Ionosphere-M No. 1 and No. 2 completed

05/16/2025 - 14:00

Mission Status

The State Commission has decided to conclude the flight tests of the two Ionosphere-M spacecraft and recommended the acceptance of the Ionozond space system into operation. The scientific payload has been tested and is ready for routine operations.
IKI Marks Its 60th Anniversary!

05/15/2025 - 01:00

Events

On May 15, 20205 IKI celebrates its birthday. The Institute was founded as a principal organisation for space research and exploration for fundamental science in the Academy of Sciences of the USSR under the Government Resolution from May 15, 1965 No. 392-147.
Experts Discuss The Plans For Future Space Exploration At IAF Forum

05/12/2025 - 17:00

Events

Anatoly Petrukovich, Director of IKI, discussed the problems of future space exploration at the plenary session 'Next Stop: The Moon and Beyond' on May 8, 2025, during the Global Space Exploration Conference — GLEX-2025, in New Delhi, India.
Venera Probe Is Back — Long Live Venus

05/11/2025 - 12:00

Events

On May 10, 2025, Kosmos-482 satellite, a twin spacecraft of Venera-8 interplanetary mission, re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and fell into the Indian Ocean. It was launched in 1972, but remained in orbit around the Earth due to a malfunction of the upper stage. IKI scientistis give their comments on the event.
The Victory Day

05/09/2025 - 00:55

Events

Dear colleagues, dear friends. We congratulate you on Victory Day of the Great Patriotic War!
Twenty Second Meeting of Young Scientists at IKI

04/25/2025 - 19:30

Events

From April 21 to 23, the XXII Conference of Young Scientists "Fundamental and Applied Space Research" took place at IKI.
IKI Instruments Selected For Chang'e-8 Mission

04/25/2025 - 10:00

Mission Status

On April 24, 2025, at the opening of 2025 Space Day of China, the project of the automatic lunar station Chang'E-8 was presented. Its scientific payload includes two instruments to be developed by the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences under the agreements between the Roscosmos State Corporation and the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
IKI Exhibits In Kaluga

04/22/2025 - 16:10

Events

From December 2024 to April 2025 IKI showed some of the items of its museum at the exhibition "The Sun and the lIfe of the Earth" at Konstantin Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics.
IKI Doors Open Day

04/12/2025 - 17:00

Save The Date

April 12, 2025, on the Cosmonautics Day, IKI opens its doors to everyone interested in space and science!
Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC Telescope Detected Solar Cosmic Rays Rise On April 1

04/06/2025 - 12:00

Research

It was not a joke: on the first day of the month the number of energetic solar protons near the Lagrange point L2 increased significantly to around 14 counts per second. This was almost 7 times higher than usual background, registered by ART-XC detectors, and the most prominent rise in 5 years of monitoring Sun's activity.

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