Optico-Physical Department

	Optico-physical department is one of the oldest scientific teams of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
	The Department's main activity is space research of the Earth and other Solar System's bodies in the visible and near-IR bands. The methods and facilities for precision s/c navigation, first of all by stars occupy the important place among our developments.

At present 12 star trackers BOKZ, BOKZ-U and BOKZ-M produced at our department are operating in near Earth orbits onboard 5 various Russian SC and the International Space Station.

September 13–16, 2010
the 2nd All-Russian Scientific&Technological Conference "Contem-porary Problems of Spa-cecraft Attitude Deter-mination and Control"

The new generation star tracker BOKZ-MF with a built-in gyro as well as the TV system for navigation and observations (TSNN) have been developed for the "Phobos-Grunt" mission planned for 2011.

New! Results of TSNN ground tests

On December 17, 2009 the
"Meteor-M" weather satellite was injected into orbit. The Satellite multispectral imaging system (KMSS) and Coordinate and clock referencing system (KKVO) developed at the department operate onboard this satellite.
New! Examples of the images