News and Events (in Russian for the time being)

On Sunday, August 4th, it was the closing day for the Ninth Summer Space School, which took place at IKI starting on July 27, It is an annual event for everyone interested in space exploration.

Academician Gennady Krasnikov, president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, visited IKI in praise of the 5th anniversary of Spektr-RG launch.

Scientists from Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Computing Center of the RAS Far-Eastern Branch, IKI and Planeta Center For Space Hydrometeorology made the discovery, using satellite data and VolSatView infromation system. By the early June, 2024 the dome was already 100 meter high.

On July 13, 2019, Proton rocket launcher with DM-03 booster blasted off from Baikonur cosmodrome, carrying Russian X-ray observatory Spektr-RG. Today, we name some — but by no means the only — fascinating results of its work in these five years.

On July 1st and 2nd cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner practised EVA elements with the payload for All-Sky Monitor experiment (MVN) in the Yu. A. Gagarin Research & Test Cosmonaut Training Center.

From 1st to 5th July, the School was attented by more than 80 researchers, who discussed various problems relating to laboratory modelling of the astrophysical processes, search for life on exoplanets, and other urgent questions of astrophysics, geophysics, and space physics.

"Spacesuit" — this is the name of the sculpture, which was officially presented to IKI at the ceremony at Russian Academy Of Arts on July 3, 2024.

Among them is IKI junior researcher Sergey Korolkov, also a postgraudate student of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Russian neutron telescope LEND aboard LRO mission (NASA) marks its 15th anniversary near the Moon on June 19, 2024. Having orbited the Moon for more than 66 thousand times, it transmitted around 105 terabytes of scientific data and registered around 20 billion lunar neutrons, We publish a new map of water ice distribution in the lunar shallow surface near the South Pole of the Moon.

On June 17, 2024 Academician Dr. Rashid Sunyaev celebrated the 50th year of his work at Space Research Institute.