News and Events (in Russian for the time being)

December 4 to 10 A. D. Shvetsov Perm Aviation Technical College hosted the Second All-Russian Space Championship. bringing together more than 120 school students and 35 tutors, including IKI scientist, from 30 Russian regions.

December 3, 2024, the second stage of BTN-Neutron experiment commenced after the arrival of BTN-M2 scientific instument. Installed inside the RS ISS, it complements the BTN-M1 instrument operating on the external side of the RS ISS.

Scientific instruments onboard Ionosphere-M No 1 switched on for the first time from November 29 to December 4, 2024.

Having measured HCl and water ice abundance in Martian atmosphere with the ACS spectrometer onboard TGO mission, scientists showed that it is HCl uptake onto water ice cloud particles that can swiftly reduce the content of HCl in the atmosphere.

Russian Science Foundation announced the winners of grant competition for small scientific teams in 2024.

The Prime Minister of Russia, Mikhail Mishustin presented Government science and technology awards on November 27, 2024.

Plasma parameters on the borders of the heliosphere help small interstellar dust particles permeate deep into Solar system, according to a new model developed by IKI researchers Egor Godenko and Vladislav Izmodenov. This also suggest that we can study the properties of interstellar matter by measuring its characteristics in our closest neighbourhood.

November 11–15, 2024 IKI hosted the 22nd international conference "Modern Problems of the Earth Remote Sensing".

Project on space plasma studies, to be led together by IKI researcher and her colleague from Beihang University, is among the winners.

Sitronics Space and IKI signed an agreement, under which a private company transfers the sets of the high-resolution Earth remote sensing data to be used for scientific research via shared research facility.