Bion 1
| Mission type | Bioscience |
|---|---|
| Operator | Institute of Biomedical Problems |
| COSPAR ID | 1973-083A |
| SATCAT no. | 06913 |
| Mission duration | 21.5 days |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft type | Bion |
| Manufacturer | TsSKB |
| Launch mass | 5,500 kilograms (12,100 lb) |
| Landing mass | 900 kilograms (2,000 lb) |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 31 October 1973, 18:24:59 UTC |
| Rocket | Soyuz-U |
| Launch site | Plesetsk 43/3 |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | 22 November 1973, 07:12 UTC |
| Landing site |
53°29′N 65°27′E / 53.483°N 65.450°E Sarykol, Kazakh SSR, USSR |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | LEO |
| Eccentricity | 0.0130338 |
| Perigee | 212 kilometres (132 mi) |
| Apogee | 386 kilometres (240 mi) |
| Inclination | 62.7999º |
| Period | 93.1 minutes |
| RAAN | 192.1415 degrees |
| Argument of perigee | 113.7984 degrees |
| Mean anomaly | 247.6840 degrees |
| Mean motion | 15.91198635 |
| Epoch | 19 November 1973, 22:36:39 UTC |
| Revolution no. | 305 |
Kosmos 605 (Russian: Космос 605 meaning Cosmos 605), or Bion No.1 was a Bion satellite.
It carried several dozen male rats (possibly 25 or 45), six Russian tortoises (Agrionemys horsfieldii) (each in a separate box), a mushroom bed, flour beetles (Tribolium confusum) in various stages of their life cycle, and living bacterial spores. It provided data on the reaction of mammal, reptile, insect, fungal, and bacterial forms to prolonged weightlessness.
Kosmos 605 was launched by a Soyuz-U rocket flying from Site 43/3 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Soviet Union. The satellite was initially launched in a low Earth orbit with a perigee of 221 kilometers and a 424 km apogee with an orbital inclination of 62.8 degrees. The spacecraft orbited the Earth for 21 days until their biological capsule returned to Earth on November 22, 1973 in a region of northwestern present-day Kazakhstan.
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