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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.

On 20th May 2024 IKI instuments, working near the Red Planet, caught it and stayed safe.

Galactic Center teems with the most extremal and exotic objects. Among them are so-called filaments — long and thin structures. Some of them are visible in radio, the other — in X-rays. They are supposed to appear as a result of relativistic electrons' and positrons' synchrotron radiation. These particles are born near pulsars — rotating neutron stars with strong magtic fields. New observations support this hypothesis.

IKI researchers and their collegues carried special obervations of ice cover in the Arctic.