Optico-physical department is one of the oldest scientific teams of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Department's main activity is space research of the Earth and other Solar System's bodies in the visible and near-IR bands. ... The new generation star tracker BOKZ-MF with a built-in gyro as well as the TV system for navigation and observations (TSNN) have been developed for the "Phobos-Grunt" mission planned for 2011. New! ...