Mice and flies sent from Kazakhstan into space – new data on their condition

Tengrinews.kz - The flight of the Bion-M No. 2 biosatellite, launched into orbit yesterday by a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from Baikonur and carrying “living organisms,” is proceeding normally.
Details were shared by Roscosmos on its official Telegram channel. According to the agency, Bion-M No. 2 is a large biomedical laboratory in space.

“All living organisms have successfully begun their journey in space,” the agency reported.


Who was sent into space?
According to Roscosmos, the satellite carries 75 mice, fruit flies, ants, mosses, plants, cell cultures, samples of grains, and seeds derived from plants whose parent seeds had already been in space before.
Experiments will focus on studying how conditions of a polar orbit — close to those of deep space — affect living beings.

“On board are hundreds of living organisms: mice, flies, bacteria, plants, and ants,” Roscosmos stated earlier.

The agency also emphasized that this mission will help scientists understand how radiation and weightlessness affect living organisms in polar orbit.
According to available data, the flight is designed to last 30 days. The project took years of work by scientists and specialists to prepare.
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