

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, 2211x1442px, 1.8Mb
- Job-ID: 3760f2c4416dec8e