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On Thursday, February 29, 2024 Meteor-M 2.4 satellite was launched from Vostochnyi. The spacecraft was succesfully inserted into oribt.

After the first few days of observations a new X-ray source turned out to be a pulsar in a binary system with a low-mass companion.

The specimens of science and technology are items of national and cultural heritage of Russia.

On February 5–9, 2024 IKI hosted the 19th annual conference «Plasma Physics in Solar System».

The 2023 award is given for the works dedicated to the development and implementation of the projects under the Federal Space Program 1995–2023 in the field of space research.

State awards are given to IKI scientists — members of the Russian Academy of Sciences in recognition of their outstanding contribution to national science, seminal research actvity, and regarding the 300-year anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences!

To the Day of Russian science and the 300-year anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences on February 8, 2024.

Academician Lev Zelenyi, academic advisor of IKI, awarded the Note of Thanks from the President of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and the Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian Academy of Sciences".

Data from 2-year sky survey by SRG/eROSITA were used to study X-ray variability of thousands of SDSS quasars. X-ray variability appeared to be linked with some physical parameters of supermassive black holes, such as theirs masses and accretion rates.

Using 20-year-long archival data, researchers at IKI Earth Remote Sensing Technologies Department made a map, showing losses from forest fires in the North in the beginning of the 21st century,