«Landing capsule is scheduled to 07.12 MSK”, – said the source.
According to the Institute of Biomedical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, the intended landing site is located 82 kilometers north of Orenburg, near the village of Buranovo.
An hour earlier, at 06.13 MSK, the engines of the spacecraft “Bion-M” will be included on the brake, to 06.32 MSK lander with a “cosmic zoo” separate from the instrument-the instrument compartment, and half an hour later, at 07.01 MSK, at an altitude of about 10 kilometers has to open the parachute.
Sputnik “Bion-1M” – the first since 2007, the Russian biosatellites – was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on the launch vehicle “Soyuz-2.1a” exactly 30 days ago, on April 19.
occurring on lands “astronauts” will be engineers and specialists of the Institute of Biomedical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences (IBMP), which are responsible for the scientific part of the project. In the area of ??the landing field laboratory will be rolled out – it will be a tent with inflatable frame, one of them after landing will be rolled over by the lander.
«After landing, the machine begin to work with them engineers, spun the hatch, and then take out the instruments (which are bio-objects) and transmitted to physicians, and physicians offer these devices, hatches, latches, and removed objects. In the field laboratory animals will be inspected, weighed, some primary, most basic research will be conducted on the spot, “- said the deputy project scientist Yevgeny Ilyin.
According to him, a group of scientists of the Institute is now located in Orenburg, along with them their German colleagues from the University of Hohenheim – they were preparing an experiment “Omegahab” in which went into orbit cichlid fish, algae and snails in a special tank.
By Sunday evening instruments, animals, plants and micro-organisms on the aircraft will be delivered to Moscow, the Institute of Biomedical Problems, where scientists will immediately begin the study and will guide them through the night, the animals have not yet had time to re-adapt to the ground conditions.
«But the full processing and analysis of data may take months,” – said Ilyin.
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