Autonomous system
AS3218 COSMOS-3218-AS AS-COSMOS root
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI)
government research legacy
COSMOS-3218-AS is the root ASN of AS-COSMOS, the network of the Space Research
Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAN) in Moscow. The RIPE object
describes it as the "Russian Space Science Internet".
What it's used for
- Research and institutional networking for IKI and affiliated space-science organisations — mission data, scientific computing, and staff connectivity.
- Acts as the root of an AS family (
AS-COSMOS) covering the wider Russian space science community rather than a single site.
Notable
- Government-research address space: this is a state academy institute, so the network exists to serve scientists and instruments, not paying subscribers.
- The registered address in the RIPE object — Profsoyuznaya Street 84/32, Moscow — is IKI's long-standing campus.
Interesting
- The
COSMOShandle and the low AS number date this to the early years of the Russian internet, when academic and space-science institutions were among the first organisations connected.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 20 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS3218- Registry name
- COSMOS-3218-AS
- Registrant
- Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science "Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences".
- Abuse contact
- abuse@rssi.ru
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2026-02-16
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere