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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, September 20 /Xinhua/ — The Bion-M No. 2 biological satellite's descent module, carrying living organisms, landed in the steppes of Russia's Orenburg region on Friday, TASS reported, citing Roscosmos.
According to the report, the spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket on August 20. The craft was delivered into a high-latitude orbit at an altitude of 370-380 kilometers. Thirty days later, it returned to Earth with living organisms on board. After landing, they will be sent to Moscow for further research.
The Bion-M No. 2 project is designed to study how living organisms cope with high-latitude orbit, where cosmic radiation levels are a third higher than those in orbit around the International Space Station. The 6.4-ton spacecraft carried 75 male mice, approximately 1,500 fruit flies, cell cultures, plants, and samples of grain, legumes, and industrial crops. Fungi, lichens, cellular materials, and plant seeds were also launched into space.
Bion is a series of Russian spacecraft for biological research. –0–
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