Bion 10 biosatellite carried two rhesus monkeys, Krosh and Ivasha, along with rats, fish, and other organisms on a joint US-Soviet biology research flight; recovered two days early after onboard thermal control problems caused excessive heat.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 28th
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 29 December 1992, 13:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Biology
- International designator
- 1992-095
- Launches in 1992
- 97th of 97
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