AS3218 — COSMOS-3218-AS AS-COSMOS root

AS3218 announces 17 IPv4 prefixes covering 9,472 addresses and 3 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

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 COSMOS handle 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.

Announced prefixes

• 62.61.16.0/20
• 193.232.3.0/24
• 193.232.4.0/24
• 193.232.6.0/24
• 193.232.9.0/24
• 193.232.10.0/24
• 193.232.12.0/24
• 193.232.23.0/24
• 193.232.28.0/24
• 193.232.31.0/24
• 193.232.192.0/22
• 193.232.196.0/23
• 193.232.207.0/24
• 193.232.208.0/24
• 193.232.218.0/23
• 194.85.209.0/24
• 194.85.213.0/24
• 2a0c:6d00:61::/48
• 2a0c:6d00:85::/48
• 2a0c:6d00:232::/48

Upstream networks

• AS12722 RECONN LLC

Downstream networks

• AS5386 Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science "Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences".
• AS49834 Best Hosting Company, LLC
• AS49554 P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS
• AS34849 Federal State Institution of Higher Professional Education "Peoples Friendship University of Russia"

Adjacent networks

• AS12722 RECONN LLC
• AS5386 Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science "Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences".
• AS49834 Best Hosting Company, LLC
• AS49554 P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS
• AS34849 Federal State Institution of Higher Professional Education "Peoples Friendship University of Russia"