The Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IZMIRAN, ) 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
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