

A Russian Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the Bion-M No. 2 biosatellite carrying 75 mice, over 1,000 fruit flies, and other biological specimens for a 30-day mission in space, blasts off from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan.
- Package: Kazakhstan Russia Space
- Categories: Science & Technology
- Location: Baikonur, Kazakhstan
- Event date: 20.08.2025
- Date published: 20.08.2025
- Author: Kirill Zykov
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 5204x3462px, 6.1Mb
- Job-ID: b9bed5a40a5ed4d4