Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation
AbbreviationIZMIRAN
FormationOctober 11, 1939[1]
TypeInstitute of RAS
HeadquartersTroitsk, Moscow, Russia
Official language
Russian
Directors
Vladimir Dmitrievich Kuznetsov(since 2004)
Main organ
RAS
Staff
600 including 300 employees[2]
Websitewww.izmiran.ru

The Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IZMIRAN, Russian: Институт земного магнетизма, ионосферы и распространения радиоволн им. Н. В. Пушкова Российской Академии наук, ИЗМИРАН) is a scientific institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences. this institute was founded in 1939 by Nikolay Pushkov.

Institute owns several space satellites programs:

  • CORONAS - Complex ORbital Near Earth Solar Activities (experiment ended)
  • COMPASS (Kompas) - Complex Orbital Magneto-Plasma Autonomous Small Satellite (see 2001 in spaceflight)
  • Interheliozond
  • Intercosmos-19 (Cosmos-1809) - research of the Earth ionospheric structure and of the electromagnetic processes in it (experiment ended)
  • Prognoz - a series of magnetometer satellites
  • APEX - Active Plasma Experiments

References

  1. Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR SSR No. 1681
  2. "History".



This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.