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Encyclopedia > Cosmos 110

Cosmos 110 was a Soviet spacecraft launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome aboard a Soyuz rocket. It incorporated a re-entry body (capsule) for landing scientific instruments and test objects. It was a biological satellite that made a sustained biomedical experiment with the dogs Veterok and Ugolyok, after 22 days in orbit around the Earth, they were safely landed. Soviet redirects here. ... A spacecraft is a vehicle, vessel, craft or device designed to operate beyond the surface of the Earth in outer space. ... The Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром Байконур, Kosmodrom Baykonur), also called Tyuratam, is the worlds oldest and largest working space launch facility. ... This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... Health science is the discipline of applied science which deals with human and animal health. ...


NSSDC ID: 1966-015A [1]


Other Names

  • 02070

Launch Date/Time: 1966-02-22 at 20:09:00 UTC


On-orbit Dry Mass: 5700 kg


See also


Belka and Strelka orbited the Earth and returned safely on Korabl-Sputnik-2 During the 1950s and 1960s the USSR used a number of dogs for sub-orbital and orbital space flights to determine whether human spaceflight was feasible. ... Squirrel monkey Baker rode a Jupiter missile (modeled above) into space in 1959 Animals in space originally served to test the survivability of spaceflight before manned space missions were attempted. ...

Voskhod programme Voskhod Spacecraft
Cosmos 47 | Voskhod 1 | Voskhod 2 | Cosmos 110
Bion satellites

Cosmos 110 | Bion 1 (605) | Bion 2 (690) | Bion 3 (782) | Bion 4 (936) | Bion 5 (1129) | Bion 6 (1514) | Bion 7 (1667) | Bion 8 (1887) | Bion 9 (2044) | Bion 10 (2229) | Bion 11 Voskhod 1 The Voskhod programme (Russian: , translated as Sunrise) was a Soviet human spaceflight project. ... Image File history File links Voskhod_spacecraft_diagram. ... Voskhod 1 was the first spaceflight to carry more than one person into space and the first flight without space suits. ... Voskhod 2 (Russian: Восход 2) was a Soviet manned space mission. ... Bion 6 (Cosmos 1514) was a biomedical research mission. ... Bion 7 (Cosmos 1667) was a biomedical research mission involving scientists from nine countries. ... Bion 8 (Cosmos 1887) carried scientific instruments for continuing research into the effects of spaceflight on monkeys and other biological objects, radiation safety, and physics. ... Bion 9 (Cosmos 2044) was a biomedical research mission involving nine countries and ESA. Eighty experiments were conducted in such categories as motion sickness, reproduction and regeneration, immunology, and readaption to a normal gravity environment. ... Bion 10 (Cosmos 2229), a C.I.S. spacecraft, was launched by a Soyuz rocket from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. ... Bion 11 was part of the Bion series of space flights. ...


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