IZMIRAN
The Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences 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
- COMPASS - Complex Orbital Magneto-Plasma Autonomous Small Satellite
- Interheliozond
- Intercosmos-19 - research of the Earth ionospheric structure and of the electromagnetic processes in it
- Prognoz - a series of magnetometer satellites
- APEX - Active Plasma Experiments