Kosmos 605
Mission type | Bioscience |
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Operator | Institute of Biomedical Problems |
COSPAR ID | 1973-083A |
SATCAT no. | 6913 |
Mission duration | 21.5 days |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Bion |
Manufacturer | TsSKB |
Launch mass | 5,500 kg (12,100 lb) |
Landing mass | 900 kg (2,000 lb) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 31 October 1973, 18:24:59 UTC |
Rocket | Soyuz-U A 15000-004 |
Launch site | Plesetsk 43/3 |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 22 November 1973, 07:12 UTC |
Landing site |
53°29′N 65°27′E / 53.483°N 65.450°E Sarykol, Kazakh SSR, USSR |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Eccentricity | 0.0130338 |
Perigee | 212 km (132 mi) |
Apogee | 386 km (240 mi) |
Inclination | 62.7999 degrees |
Period | 93.1 minutes |
RAAN | 192.1415 degrees |
Argument of perigee | 113.7984 degrees |
Mean anomaly | 247.6840 degrees |
Mean motion | 15.91198635 |
Epoch | 19 November 1973, 22:36:39 UTC[1] |
Revolution no. | 305 |
Kosmos 605 (Russian: Космос 605 meaning Cosmos 605), or Bion No.1, was a Bion satellite. Kosmos 605 was the first of eleven satellites Bion.
Launch
Kosmos 605 was launched by a Soyuz-U rocket flying from Site 43/3 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Soviet Union. The satellite was initially launched in a low Earth orbit with a perigee of 221 kilometres (137 mi) and a 424 kilometres (263 mi) apogee with an orbital inclination of 62.8 degrees. The spacecraft orbited the Earth for 21 days until their biological capsule returned to Earth on November 22, 1973 in a region of northwestern present-day Kazakhstan.[2]
Mission
It carried several dozen male rats (possibly 25[3] or 45[4]), six Russian tortoises (Agrionemys horsfieldii)[5] (each in a separate box), a mushroom bed, flour beetles (Tribolium confusum[4]) in various stages of their life cycle, and living bacterial spores. It provided data on the reaction of mammal, reptile, insect, fungal, and bacterial forms to prolonged weightlessness.[6]
See also
References
- ↑ Peat, Chris. "COSMOS 605". Heavens-Above. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
- ↑ "Bion". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Mark Wade. Retrieved July 10, 2018.
- ↑ Brian Harvey, Olga Zakutnyaya (2011). Russian Space Probes. Springer. p. 448. doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-8150-9. ISBN 978-1-4419-8149-3. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
- 1 2 "PowerPoint Presentation" (PDF). 130.26.92.88. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
- ↑ Bion 1 Data Archive
- ↑ "Bion 1". NSSDCA. NASA Goddard Space Center. 2013-08-16. Retrieved 2014-03-08.