On the 18th of June, a press conference "Radioastron - Results and Achievements" was held at Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

On the 18th of June, a press conference "Radioastron - Results and Achievements" was held at Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It was devoted to the results of the operation of “Spektr-R” space radio observatory and the international astrophysical project "Radioastron". The developers and participants of the space radio telescope project told about the results and achievements of the “Radioastron” observation program. Also, the scientists told about the work on the next project - Millimetron space observatory and the breakthrough scientific tasks to be solved by this new telescope.

After the press conference, an excursion to the Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory located in the Moscow Region was organized for journalists. The participants were able to see the operation of the Radioastron tracking station - the RT-22 radio telescope, and visited the production of primary mirror composite panels for the Millimetron space observatory.

The list of speakers:

• Nikolay Kolachevsky, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of LPI;
• Nikolay Kardashev, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Astro Space Center of LPI, Head of the Radioastron Project, one of the authors of the VLBI idea;
• Yuri Kovalev, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Radioastron Scientific Program, ASC LPI Chief Researcher;
• Marina Shatskaya, Head of the Data Processing Center, ASC LPI;
• Andrei Smirnov, Head of the Project Complex Laboratory of ASC LPI;
• Dmitry Novikov, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Senior Researcher at ASC LPI, one of the participants of the Millimetron project.
• Link to the recording of the press conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA4yFMQMp-c