Summary of experiments onboard Soviet biosatellites

Some Challenges in Gravity Related Research

“…Current and past platforms for long-duration microgravity are the Russian Photon and Bion satellites (Nikolaev and Ilyin, 1981;Ilyin, 2000), the Space Shuttle (Crippen and Young, 2011) and Soyuz missions (Van Loon et al, 2007), and the Salyut, Skylab (NASA, 1973;Michel et al, 1976), Mir, and ISS (Evans et al, 2009;Ruttley et al, 2017) space stations or the Chinese Shenzhou spacecraft (e.g., Preu and Braun, 2014;Hu and Kang, 2019), the future Chinese Space Station (e.g., Wang et al, 2019), or its predecessor facilities, such as the TongGong Spacelab (Gu et al, 2016;Li et al, 2018;Wang et al, 2018).…”