Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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The mission
Monkeys. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 1996-073; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 24 December 1996, 13:50:00 UTC
- Launch location
- 1-y Gosudarstvenniy Ispitatelniy Kosmodrom MO RF
- Launch vehicle
- Soyuz-U
- Orbit
- Lower low Earth orbit (inclined)
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 7 January 1997
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Hardware
Spacecraft
Bion
Monkeys.
- GCAT ID
- S24701
- Manufacturer
- GNPRKTs TsSKB-Progress
- Launch mass
- 2,040 kg
- Dimensions
- 6.5 m long · 2.4 m diameter · 6.5 m span
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