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On this day 66 years ago the first man-made satellite — Sputnik was launched into space from cosmodrome at Tyura-Tam, to be later known as Baikonur. October 4, 1957, at 22:28:34 Moscow time Space Era has begun.

The interdepratmental commission investigates the causes of the Luna-25's off-normal work in the orbit around the Moon.

Opening ceremony took place on Monday, October 2nd. This year, IAC gathered more that 5000 participants, IKI scientists among them, and conclude on Friday, 6 October.

A period of relatively quiet Sun, which we witnessed in summer 2023, will most likely be followed by the increase in solar activity in autumn 2023.

Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC X-Ray telescope and Integral observatory look at Swift J1727.8-1613 X-Ray nova – the brightest object in the summer X-ray sky of 2023.

Presentation was held on August 30, 2023. The Earth&Universe popular scientific journal is published by Nauka Publishing House and the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Academician Lev M. Zelenyi, the Academic Advisor of IKI, has been acting as its editor-in-chief since 2018.

Science and Technology Decade Website (within the Science and Universities national project) now gives an opportunity to browse the list of scientific educational programs in Russian educational insitutes.

Using SRG/eROSITA X-ray data, researchers studied the properties of hot gas in galaxy clusters at large distances from their centers. The results of the study are published in MNRAS and are available on arXiv.org.

В соответствии с программой полета автоматической станции «Луна-25», 19 августа была предусмотрена выдача импульса для формирования ее предпосадочной эллиптической орбиты. Около 14:57 по московскому времени связь с автоматической станцией прервалась. Реализованные 19 и 20 августа мероприятия по поиску «Луны-25» и вхождению с ней в связь результатов не дали. По результатам предварительного анализа, в связи с отклонением фактических параметров импульса от расчетных, автоматическая станция перешла на нерасчетную орбиту и прекратила свое существование в результате столкновения с поверхностью Луны. Вопросами выяснения причин потери «Луны-25» займется специально формируемая межведомственная комиссия.

Luna-25 mission, built at Lavochkin Association (part of Roscosmos State Space Corporation), continues its flight along the circular orbit around the Moon. Its scientific instruments were switched on several times in the flight and sent back first data.