MG 16 · 2021
S.A. Lavochkin Association
Lavochkin contributed to the Spektr-RG mission infrastructure behind the all-sky X-ray survey.
1937, Soviet Union
Khimki, Russia
Designer General Alexander Shirshakov
“For the creation of the world's best X-ray map of the entire sky as part of the SRG/eROSITA scientific program.”
MG XVI, online meeting
Work
Institutional Marcel Grossmann Awards recognize the infrastructures, collaborations, and research cultures that make major advances in relativistic astrophysics and cosmology possible.
Lavochkin contributed to the Spektr-RG mission infrastructure behind the all-sky X-ray survey.
The award highlights how sustained institutional work can create instruments, archives, scientific communities, and missions that become foundations for later discoveries.