Monday, September 1, 2014

“Photon-M4″ successfully landed in the Orenburg region – BFM.Ru

Planting took place in normal mode

In the Orenburg region landed lander “Foton-M4.” ITAR-TASS referring to the press service of the Russian Space Agency.

Landing has passed without incident, the unit landed in a given area. Specialists of Russian Federal Space Agency and the Institute of Biomedical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences together with search and rescue teams of the Central Military District began evacuating the capsule from the landing site. Should be possible to evacuate biomaterial carefully so as not to disturb the purity of the experiment.

As explained in the press service of the CVO, the evacuation module with plants and animals is carried out for only the second time, although the district units are searching for astronauts since 1963. The operation involved, but specialists and military personnel, 10 helicopters Mi-8, AN-26 aircraft and specialized ATV.

The decision on the landing module was made by the State Commission for consideration of the results of carrying out scientific experiments. The satellite was launched on July 19 on board went into space, representatives of several species of living organisms, including geckos and Drosophila, as well as plant seeds. In addition, it was installed 22 sets of research equipment.

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