The Russian scientists are looking forward to landing lander “Foton-M”. He should sit down today in the Orenburg region. On board – space travelers: geckos and the fruit fly Drosophila.
The Russian scientists are looking forward to landing lander “ Foton-M”. He should sit down today in the Orenburg region. On board – space travelers: geckos and the fruit fly Drosophila.
Their mission in orbit reproduction. From being able to whether the insects and lizards to continue the race in conditions of weightlessness, many of the conclusions depend on Russian scientists.
Launching a spacecraft “Foton-M” № 4 was held on July 19th. He flew from Baikonur, but not immediately “got” to the desired height of the orbit. Moreover. week lost contact with the “Photon” that threatened the entire experiment – the device without a connection could not be planted. If the planned maneuver final ascent of “Photon” on the estimated near-circular orbit did not take place, then slowly decreased biocompanion would have burned up in the atmosphere of the Earth. But managed to establish telemetry, cameras all the time recorded occurring in containers with flies and geckos. These records are to be processed after landing.
Total space flight in July, the Federal Space Agency sent four females and one male gecko. All of them – no more than 10 cm in length. Now, the main intrigue – how many geckos return to Earth.
In the fly breeding occurs very quickly, so it is expected that in the tubes has been living for the fourth generation of flies sent into space.
Note geckos not the first time launched into space, but the duration of the experiments previously ranged from two weeks to a month. For example, last year, 15 individuals spent 30 days aboard biocompanion “Bion-M”. Then the re-entry capsule “Bion-1M” with Mongolian prairie gerbils, geckos, fish, cichlids, microorganisms, plants and artificial meteorite landed in the Orenburg region, but many of the animals did not survive.
The Russian scientists are looking forward to landing lander “ Foton-M”. He should sit down today in the Orenburg region. On board – space travelers: geckos and the fruit fly Drosophila.
Their mission in orbit reproduction. From being able to whether the insects and lizards to continue the race in conditions of weightlessness, many of the conclusions depend on Russian scientists.
Launching a spacecraft “Foton-M” № 4 was held on July 19th. He flew from Baikonur, but not immediately “got” to the desired height of the orbit. Moreover. week lost contact with the “Photon” that threatened the entire experiment – the device without a connection could not be planted. If the planned maneuver final ascent of “Photon” on the estimated near-circular orbit did not take place, then slowly decreased biocompanion would have burned up in the atmosphere of the Earth. But managed to establish telemetry, cameras all the time recorded occurring in containers with flies and geckos. These records are to be processed after landing.
Total space flight in July, the Federal Space Agency sent four females and one male gecko. All of them – no more than 10 cm in length. Now, the main intrigue – how many geckos return to Earth.
In the fly breeding occurs very quickly, so it is expected that in the tubes has been living for the fourth generation of flies sent into space.
Note geckos not the first time launched into space, but the duration of the experiments previously ranged from two weeks to a month. For example, last year, 15 individuals spent 30 days aboard biocompanion “Bion-M”. Then the re-entry capsule “Bion-1M” with Mongolian prairie gerbils, geckos, fish, cichlids, microorganisms, plants and artificial meteorite landed in the Orenburg region, but many of the animals did not survive.
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