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The Research Institute of Physical Measurements

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The Research Institute of Physical Measurements was founded in Penza in 1960 as a branch of the Central Research Institute of Machine Building for the purpose of outer space exploration: i.e., to create new measuring tools, first of all telemeter transducers, at all stages of the design and exploitation of rocket technology.

In 2004, the Research Institute of Physical Measurements gained the status of a federal scientific production centre. Several of the current objectives of the institute include designing, constructing and delivering equipment for the rocket and space technology and ground launching facilities: transducers of physical quantities, normalising transformers as well as measurement, diagnostic, guidance, navigation, and protection systems.

Currently, the Research Institute of Physical Measurements has implemented over 850 projects, including over 3,600 transducers and transforming facilities which are used as part of national and international space programmes: Vostok, Kosmos, Proton, Soyuz-2M, Energiya-Buran, Angara, Soyuz-Apollon, International Space Station, Mir, Shuttle-Mir, Mars, Vega, Fobos, Topol-V, Bulava, Morskoi Start and others.

The institute is currently working on making transducers with self-diagnostics elements, intellectualising the processes of data receipt and procession, and expanding the capacity of facilities on the basis of new materials, critical technologies, micro- and nanotechnologies, as part of the federal space programme and the National Technological Base Federal Targeted Programme.

The Research Institute of Physical Measurements successfully cooperates with Indian and Chinese Space Agencies and the European Space Agency. It also takes part in the completion of the RD-180 Russian rocket engines used in the first stage of the U.S. Atlas rocket complex with measurement facilities.