News and Events (in Russian for the time being)

Marcel Grossmann institutional award for the Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) mission was presented to IKI at the opening of the "High-Energy Astrophysics Today and Tomorrow" conference on December 23, 2024

On December 19, 2024 cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner installed the MVN single-unit instrument on the outside of the Zvezda Service Module of the ISS, as part of the planned EVA-63. MVN unit is a part of the space experiment MVN, aka All-Sky Monitor.

Annual all-Russian conference "High Energy Astrophyiscs Today And Tomorrow 2024", aka HEA–2024, starts on Monday, December 23 at IKI.

New model developed by IKI astrophysicists and their colleagues and based on the data of SRG/eROSITA X-ray telescope, links the bright structure seen in our Galaxy to bubbles of hot gas that emerge from star-formation regions like smoke from the chimney.

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.