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RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Space Research Institute
Russian Academy of Sciences

Space Research Institute
Russian Academy of Sciences

News and Events (in Russian for the time being)

Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC X-ray Telescope Helps to Reveal the Origin of High-Energy Radiation

08/18/2023 - 13:30

Research

Astrophysicists from IKI and Ioffe Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences studied compact star cluster Westerlund 2. The paper with the results of the study is accepted for publication in MNRAS and is available on arXiv.org.
Luna-25's First Images Of the Lunar Surface

08/17/2023 - 17:15

Mission Status

Luna-25 mission, currently in a circular orbit around the Moon, sent back first images of the far side of the Moon made by STS-L TV-cameras.
Luna-25 Entered the Orbit Around the Moon

08/16/2023 - 12:43

Mission Status

Today Luna-25 station, built at Lavochkin Association (part of State Space Corporation Roscosmos), entered the circular polar orbit around the Moon and became its artificial satellite.
Away from the Earth. Flying to the Moon

08/14/2023 - 16:01

Mission Status

The IKI RAS has completed an express analysis of telemetry and measurement data of scientific instruments on board the Luna-25 automatic station, performed on August 13, 2023 in two sessions of the first activations at a distance of about 310 thousand km from the Earth. All instruments showed full operability and readiness for lunar exploration. Their analog and digital components and blocks worked perfectly.
Roscosmos: First Automatic Lunar Mission in the New History of Russia Blasts Off To the Moon

08/11/2023 - 09:09

Mission Status

Luna-25 automatic mission to the Moon was launched from Vostochny cosmodrome by Soyuz-2.1b launcher. It was successfully inserted into cruise trajectory and separated from the Fregat booster.
Maxim Litvak On Scientific Payload of Luna-25 Mission

08/09/2023 - 10:00

Mission Status

Luna-25 lander is equipped with the self-consistent set of scientific instruments, which will study the regolith and the exosphere of the Moon.
Summer Space School 2023 at IKI

08/08/2023 - 15:10

Popular science

For nine days, since July 29 to August 6, IKI welcomed the participants of Summer Space School — an annual event for everyone interested in space exploration.
'General Rehearsal' of Luna-25 Scientific Instruments' Work On the Moon

08/07/2023 - 13:56

Mission Status

On August 7, 2023 Luna-25 science teams have successfully completed the 'general rehearsal' of the first stages of instruments' work on the Moon.
New Observatory Joins the Round Dance

08/02/2023 - 13:50

Research

Spektr-RG, James Webb Space Telescope, Gaia, and since the end of July, 2023, Euclid circle around L2 point in animations by Natan Eismon and Maxim Pupkov from the Department of Space Dynamics and Mathematical Information Processing.
Academician Lev Zelenyi On the Origin of Luna-25 Mission and Its Targets

07/28/2023 - 15:00

Mission Status

Before Luna-25 mission starts off to the Moon, as planned, in August 2023, we asked academician Lev Zelenyi, academic advisor of IKI and Principal Investigator of the mission, to share some details from Luna-25's long history and its main objectives.

IKI in Media Weekly Digests (in Russian)

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Conferences

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