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On April 20, 2024 IKI welcomes everyone interested in space at IKI Doors Open Day!

One of the major events of the Science and Technology Decade in brief.

On April 12–14, 2024, the 34th Oldtimer-Gallery was open in St. Petersburg. This year, it included the third Fest of Technical Museums under the motto 'From the carriage to the rocket'.

Our congratulations to the 63rd anniversary of the Yuri Gagarin's flight — the first man in space! On April 20, 2024 IKI welcomes everyone at the annual Doors Open Day — save the date!

April 10-12, 2024, IKI hosted the 21st Conference of Young Scientists, just before the Cosmonautics Day. For three days more than 200 students and researchers presented their scientific results in various fields of space science.

April, 1, 2024 Russian Science Foundation published the lists of winners of two grant competitions. Among the 515 projects of the individual scientific groups to be supported by RSF are the projects led by IKI researchers.

International Forum for Scientific Youth «Step into the Future», dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is underway in Moscow On March 25–29, 2024 . On March 26, the participants of the Forum's section on space and Earth science presented their talks at IKI.

Strong magnetic storm, reaching G4 level, stirred the Earth's magnetosphere on March 24, 2024. It started after the magnetic cloud reached the planet after it was emitted by the Sun as a result of a giant flare on March, 23. The storm's intensity started to decrease in an hour after the beginning, following the change of magnetic field direction in the cloud. Still, the geomagnetic environment remains disturbed,

The order was signed by Valery Falkov, Minister of Science and Higher Education of Russia, on March 13, 2024.

On Thursday, February 29, 2024 Meteor-M 2.4 satellite was launched from Vostochnyi. The spacecraft was succesfully inserted into oribt.