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
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...
. this institute was founded in 1939 by
Nikolay Pushkov
Nikolay Vasilyevich Pushkov (russian: Николай Васильевич Пушков; May 17, 1903 – January 29, 1981) was a Soviet scientist and founder of IZMIRAN.
Pushkov was born in Druzhno village, Dmitrovskiy uezd, Orlovskaya guberni ...
.
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
A magnetometer is a device that measures magnetic field or magnetic dipole moment. Different types of magnetometers measure the direction, strength, or relative change of a magnetic field at a particular location. A compass is one such device, o ...
satellites
* APEX - Active Plasma Experiments
References
External links
Official IZMIRAN website Russian/English mixed content
Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division of IZMIRANComplex Orbital Magneto-Plasma Autonomous Small Satellite
1939 establishments in the Soviet Union
Earth science research institutes
Ionosphere
Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Research institutes in the Soviet Union
Troitsky Administrative Okrug
Troitsk Settlement
Research institutes established in 1939
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