MOSCOW, 25 APR – RIA Novosti. Living organisms that Russia will launch into space for a month in 2023 on the biological satellite “Bion-M” will receive a dose of radiation similar to a three-year flight of astronauts on Board the International space station, reported RIA Novosti head of the Department of radiation safety of manned space flight Institute of biomedical problems of RAS Vyacheslav Shurshakov.
In September from a document of the Russian space Agency posted on the website of public procurement, it became known that the launch of the spacecraft “Bion-M” No. 2 postponed to 2023. Then as said to RIA Novosti source in the rocket and space industry, the unit will start in April 2023 with a flight duration of about a month.
the”New “Bion-M” will fly in low earth orbit of 800 kilometers. So high of living organisms, not counting the tortoises to orbit the moon, we haven’t launched,” said Shurshakov.
He added that “the people” Russian “Noah’s ark” for the month of the flight will receive the same dose of what the astronauts get to the ISS in three years. “It will be a unique experiment. Since there orbit higher than the ISS, there will be more heavy charged particles that have not fully explored the negative impact on the health of living organisms,” explained Shurshakov.
Earlier it was reported that the satellite “Bion-M” No. 2 will be placed into earth orbit at an altitude of 800 kilometers to study the effect of space environment on biological organisms. In particular, the satellite will fly 75 mice, flies, plants and microorganisms. In the project it is planned the participation of scientists from France, USA and Germany.
In April 2013 into orbit was launched the satellite “Bion-M” number 1 flight which lasted a month. Of the animals on Board were killed due to equipment failure.
In the years 1973-1996 into space was launched 11 satellites “Bion”, which flew the 12 monkeys.
