🎖️1945: The Feat That Changed the World This year we commemorate the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War - a victory forged not only on the frontlines but also in laboratories, design bureaus, and factories.
🔧 Victory Technologies • T-34 - the war's best tank with sloped armor (produced at 1,200 units per month!) • Katyusha - rocket artillery systems whose principles became foundational for space rockets • Radar and encryption - technologies that later enabled space exploration
🔬 SINP MSU and the Radiation Monitoring Laboratory: The Legacy of Victory in Space The Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) of Moscow State University, established in 1946, became a bridge from wartime technologies to the stars:
🚀 Space Achievements of the Institute: • 1949 – Creation of the first cosmic ray research group under the leadership of S.N. Vernov • 1957-1958 – Development of the first onboard radiation detectors for satellites (including the legendary Sputnik-3) • 1961 – Beginning of systematic radiation measurements on manned spacecraft (Vostok-1 with Yuri Gagarin) • 1971-1999 – Equipping Soviet space stations with SINP dosimeters • 2016– Launch of the Lomonosov satellite with a unique UV radiation • Present days– The SINP MSU Radiation Monitoring Laboratory safeguards radiation security.