International Space Station

In February 2025 in-flight tests of the MVN All-Sky X-ray Monitor installed on the outer side of the International Space Station have been successfully completed.

As part of the experiment, tests of special shields, wcich should protect BTN-M2 instrument's detectors from space neutrons, commenced.

On December 19, 2024 cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner installed the MVN single-unit instrument on the outside of the Zvezda Service Module of the ISS, as part of the planned EVA-63. MVN unit is a part of the space experiment MVN, aka All-Sky Monitor.

December 3, 2024, the second stage of BTN-Neutron experiment commenced after the arrival of BTN-M2 scientific instument. Installed inside the RS ISS, it complements the BTN-M1 instrument operating on the external side of the RS ISS.

On August 8, 2024 BTN-M1 instrument onboad Russian segment of the ISS resumed gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) monitoring together with Russian neutron spectrometer HEND (onboard NASA's Mars Odyssey mission). Just the day after they detected new GRB240809A from hypernova at a distance z ~ 1.5.

On August 15, 2024 Soyuz-2.1a rocket launcher blasted off the launch pad at Baikonur cosmodrome carrying Progress MS-28 cargo spaceship to the International Space Station. Its payload includes All-Sky-Monitor X-ray spectrometer, made at IKI, which will study the X-ray background radiation with unprecedented accuracy. Docking to the ISS is scheduled for August 17, 2024.

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.

On November 25, 2023 IKI opened its doors for everyone interested in space.