China has launched into orbit research satellite returned to study processes occurring in microgravity. It is reported, “Xinhua».
The rocket “Long March 2D» with the satellite SJ-10 was launched at the beginning of the day Wednesday, April 6, from the Baikonur Jiuquan in the Gobi Desert in northwest China.
19 experiments in the fields of knowledge, such as physics of fluid, combustion in microgravity, space materials science, the study of radiation effects, biology and biotechnology.
Then, according to the mission program will be carried out on board the bullet-shaped space probe, the spacecraft will return to Earth, after which the scientists will receive materials and begin processing the results.
«All experiments were planned to conduct in the SJ-10, brand new, have never been carried out before neither we nor abroad “, – he said the chief researcher of the mission Hu Venrui
SJ-10 is the second of four scientific satellites under the China space Agency organized a research program.. Unlike the other three, this device is returned. This is the 25th in a row returned by the satellite launched by China in the past decades.
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