Biological satellites and their contribution to space biology and medicine
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IAF-75-09
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- year
1975
- abstract
A biological satellite or a biosatellite as it is often abbreviated is one of the types of an automatic Earth satellite specially designed to carry out spacecraft-borne experiments with various representatives of plant and animal kingdoms as well as with isolated cells and tissues of plants and animals. The first biological satellites were the Soviet second Earth artificial satellite that flew the dog Laika (1957) and Soviet recoverable spaceships-satellites (1960-1961) which flew dogs and many other living organisms. It is worth mentioning that these space vehicles were not termed biosatellites at the time of their flights.