Foton
Foton (Russian Фотон for photon) is the name of an unmanned spacecraft, the Soviet Union and later Russia developed on the basis of the Vostok spacecraft from 1985 and initially for materials science and engineering, started later to an increasing extent also for biological experiments.
History
After the Soviet Union had four missions Foton 1-4 successfully, flew at Foton -5 for the first time an experiment that was designed from Western Europe. As of 1991, the ESA involved in Foton Foton 7 to 12 The missiles were launched from Plesetsk from.
The first model after reconstruction for Foton -M - 2002 series was lost due to failure of the Soyuz rocket at the start of the ramp PU 3 in Plesetsk and crashed after 29 seconds and 350 meters in a forest area. The launch of Foton -M2 in May 2005 was successful and the landing capsule returned after 16 days from space successfully back to Earth. Foton -M3 was launched on 14 September 2007 at 11:00 UTC and landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan on 26 September 2007 at 7:52 UTC. Aboard the 6535 kg heavy satellites in addition to materials science, biological and medical experiments ( more than 70) were carried out.