MVN X-Ray Monitor Installed On the Outside of the ISS 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.
BTN-Neutron Experiment: Second Stage Underway Aboard Russian Segment of the ISS 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.
All-Sky Monitor On Its Way To the ISS 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.
3rd International Conference "Science on The ISS" November 20–23, 2023 the Third international conference "Science on the ISS", dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the International Space Station's flight, wil be held at IKI premises.