Vladislav Zubko

Awarded are the work on Venus cruise trajectory calculation and development of new gamma-ray spectrometer for lunar research.

On July 18, 2022 at the Opening Ceremony of 44th COSPAR Scientific Assembly in Athens Vladislav Zubko from IKI was awarded with the COSPAR Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scientists 2022 for his paper "Analysis of mission opportunities to Sedna in 2029–2034ASR68/7".

Mission scenario to a dwarf planet Sedna was considered in a paper by IKI authors published by Advances in Space Research. Sedna, whose 10,000-year orbit reaches as far as inner Oort cloud, will pass its perihelion in 2075. It is perhaps the 'once-in-a-lifetime' chance to send the spacecraft to this object and wait for the results to come to the same generation.