US EditionRussia Launches Biomedical Research Satellite Bion-M No.2
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The mission, managed by the Moscow Institute of Biomedical Research (IMBP), continues a long tradition of Russian experiments with living organisms in space. The Soviet Bion program began in the 1970s. A new line of unique space medicine research was launched by Bion-M1 in 2013, and the next representative, BION-M2, was then expected for more than 12 years. Unlike its predecessor, this satellite aimed for a near-polar orbit with an inclination o…
Russia Launches Biomedical Research Satellite Bion-M No.2
Russia Launches Biomedical Research Satellite Bion-M No.2 | RoscosmosRussia launched the Bion-M No.2 satellite at 17:13 UTC on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, aboard a Soyuz-2-1b rocket from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. This biomedical satellite is a continuation of a Soviet and later Russian scientific program. This started with the launch of Bion 1 back in 1973.The Bion program aims to study the effects of microgravity and space environment…
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