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    The Bion satellites (Russian: Бион), also named Biocosmos, is a series of Soviet (later Russian) biosatellites focused on space medicine. The Soviet biosatellite...
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  • Look up bion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bion may refer to: Bion (satellite), a series of Soviet satellites from the 1960s and 1970s Bion, in physics...
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  • Soviet/Russian Bion satellite programme aimed at biological research in space. The most recent spacecraft of the Bion-M series, Bion-M No.1, was launched...
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  • Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik, Bion and Meteor satellites were also given Kosmos designations. The designation is given only to satellites which are in Earth orbit...
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    Soviet/Russian Bion satellite programme aimed at biological research in space. The last spacecraft of the Bion series, Bion 11, was launched in 1996. The Bion-M1...
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    The Soviet /Russian space program used only rhesus macaques in its Bion satellite program in 1980s and 1990s. The names of the monkeys began with sequential...
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    board Bion 7. The ten newts shared their journey with two rhesus macaques and ten rats, in an otherwise crewless Soviet Kosmos satellite. In 1992, Bion 10...
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    Kosmos 782 (redirect from Bion-3)
    Kosmos 782 or Bion 3 (Бион 3, Космос 782) was a Bion satellite. It carried 14 experiments prepared by seven countries in all, with participation from scientists...
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  • Bion 11 was a Russian biological research satellite that was part of the Bion programme. Scientists from France, Russia and United States conducted the...
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    Kosmos 605 (redirect from Bion-1)
    Kosmos 605 or Bion 1 (Russian: Космос 605), was a Bion satellite. It was the first of eleven Bion satellites launched between 1973 and 1996. Kosmos 605...
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    Kosmos 936 (redirect from Bion-4)
    Kosmos 936 or Bion 4 (Бион 4, Космос 936) was a Bion satellite. The mission involved nine countries in a series of biomedical research experiments. The...
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    Kosmos 1129 (redirect from Bion-5)
    Bion 5, also known as Kosmos 1129 (in Russian: Бион 5, Космос-1129) was a Bion satellite. It was an international biomedical research mission involving...
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    Kosmos 1667 (redirect from Bion-7)
    Kosmos 1667), or Bion 7 was a 1985 biomedical research mission satellite involving scientists from nine countries. It was part of the Bion program. This...
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    Kosmos 1514 (redirect from Bion-6)
    Kosmos 1514 or Bion 6 (in Russian: Космос 1514, Бион 6) was a biomedical research mission that was launched on 14 December 1983, at 07:00:00 UTC. It was...
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    Kosmos 690 (redirect from Bion-2)
    Kosmos 690 or Bion 2(in Russian: Бион 2, Космос 690), was a Bion satellite launched by the Soviet Union in late 1974. Kosmos 690 was launched on 22 October...
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    portal Astrobiology – Science concerned with life in the universe Bion (satellite) – Soviet and Russian spacecraft aimed at biological experiments in...
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    Biolab – Science payload fitted inside the Columbus laboratory of the ISS Bion (satellite) – Soviet and Russian spacecraft aimed at biological experiments in...
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    Kosmos 1887 (redirect from Bion-8)
    Bion 8 or Kosmos 1887 (in Russian: Бион 8, Космос 1887) was a Bion satellite. Bion 8 carried a payload of biological and radiation physics experiments...
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  • but also the Russian uncrewed Foton (in the early phase named Bion (satellite) satellite programmes were utilised by ESA. These joint activities were regulated...
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    ("Aviators-Cosmonauts"). Spaceflight portal Soviet Union portal Bion satellites, a series of biology research satellites from 1966 to 1996 – participation of the United...
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    Kosmos 2229 (redirect from Bion-10)
    Kosmos 2229, or Bion 10 (in Russian: Бион 10, Космос 2229) was a biomedical research mission involving in ten countries plus European Space Agency (ESA)...
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    Biosatellite (category Satellites by type)
    NASA launched three such satellites between 1966 and 1969 in its Biosatellite program. Other notable biosatellites include: Bion space program of the Soviet...
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    aperture radar on an Earth observation satellite in 2025. The satellite will be the first radar imaging satellite to use dual frequencies. It will be used...
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    Kosmos 2044 (redirect from Bion-9)
    Kosmos 2044, or Bion 9 (in Russian: Бион 9, Космос 2044) was a biomedical research mission involving in nine countries plus ESA: United Kingdom, Hungarian...
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    launched 15 July 1975. The Soviets flew several Bion program missions which consisted of satellites with biological cargoes. On these launches they flew...
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    capsule experiences high forces on reentry, up to 8 to 9g. Biosatellite Bion BIOPAN Animals in space "Foton". ESA. Archived from the original on 2006-03-23...
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    Revest du Bion on the Plateau d'Albion at 44°04′17″N 5°32′05″E / 44.0715°N 5.5346°E / 44.0715; 5.5346. Data processing and generation of satellite orbital...
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    OSSI-1 (category Amateur radio satellites)
    OSSI-1 (standing for Open Source Satellite Initiative-1) was an amateur radio satellite launched in 2013 with Bion-M No.1. Bion-M was launched into orbit at...
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  • Geosynchronous satellite platforms: In addition to those above, the following companies have successfully built and launched (smaller) satellite platforms:...
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    Plant Growth/Plant Phototropism, selected March 1972 aboard Skylab. Bion satellites, began 1973. NASA Clean Air Study, began in 1989 at the Stennis Space...
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