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.
| Abbreviation | IZMIRAN |
|---|---|
| Formation | October 11, 1939[1] |
| Type | Institute of RAS |
| Headquarters | Troitsk, Moscow, Russia |
Official language | Russian |
Directors | Vladimir Dmitrievich Kuznetsov(since 2004) |
Main organ | RAS |
Staff | 600 including 300 employees[2] |
| Website | www |
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
External links
- Official IZMIRAN website, Russian/English mixed content
- Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division of IZMIRAN
- Complex Orbital Magneto-Plasma Autonomous Small Satellite
- IZMIRAN Geophysical Situation Forecasting Center