Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2013
The number of experiments on-board Lomonosov spacecraft are preparing now at SINP MSU inco-operation with other organisations. The main idea of Lomonosov mission is to studyextreme astrophysical phenomena, such as cosmic gamma-ray bursts and ultra-high energycosmic rays. These phenomena connect with processes occurred in very distant astrophysicalobjects of the Early Universe and give us information about first stages of Universeevolution. Thus, the Lomonosov mission scientific equipment includes several instrumentsfor gamma-ray burst observation in optics, ultra-violet, X-rays and gamma-rays and thewide aperture telescope for ultra-high energy particle study by detection of ionisationlight along its tracks in the atmosphere. The main parameters and a brief description ofthese instruments are presented.