Foton 2007

 2007-040A

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Total mass 6535 kg. Launch Soyuz-U No 98; spacecraft was 34KS No. Ts15000-15.

The Fotino tether was meant to deploy to 30 km, but release happened after the initial deploy to 8.5 km.

Fotino is attached to the center of the forward face of the Foton battery module.

Deorbit burn 2007-09-26 07:23:43 UTC over circa 15E 26S.

Re-entry vehicle landed 2007-09-26 07:58 UTC after 11.87d. Coordinates: planned 50.6 deg N, 66.3 deg E, cca. 170km south of town Kustanay Actual 55.7E 41.6N estimated.

Foton changed perigee by 1.05 km at tether sep.

Expected Fotino landing at 66.2E 50.6N.

Foton
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2007 Sep 14	1100	Launch by Soyuz-U	KB LC1
	1108	Blok-I sep
2007 Sep 19			258 x 280 x 62.9
2007 Sep 25	0208	YES-2 power-up
	0446:33	Fotino/MASS deploy
	0545?	Stage 1 complete at 3378m length
	0621:12	Begin stage 2
	0632	Computer problem
	0710:19	Tether deploy to 31.705 km completed
		Pendulum swing
	0722:37	Swing through Rbar
	0722:37	MASS/Fotino release
	0730?	Fotino reentry
	0757	nominal landing time
2007 Sep 26
	0500?	battery pack sep
	0723:39	Deorbit burn
	0758	Landed 140 km S Kustanai

Payload:

• Kontur-L bio payload (mice, sand eel) (IMBP RAN)

• Biopan, life science samples (ESA/KT)

• OMEGAHAB, U. Erlangen/U. Hohenheim - aquarium, larval cichlid fish Oreochromis mossambicus; algae

• POLIZON-Experiments; crystal growth samples for Polizon-M furnace

• Biokont-M, TsNIIMash biological samples

• Vibrokon-M, Liquid flow processes

• Plasmida/ Retsentor/ Ulitka/ Ulkadka, IMBP RAN experiments in space biology

• GradFlex, liquid physics (ESA)

• Telesupport, ESA telemetry for experiments on board

• SCCO, diffusion experiments (ESA/CSA)

• Biobox, bio and radiation expts (ESA)

• Biocon, space biology expts (ASI)

• Eristo/Osteo, bio samples (ESA/CSA) bone growth and yeast incubators

• Aquahab (DLR/ESA)

• Stone (ESA exterior sample)

• Granada, protein crystal growth (ESA)

• Freqbone (ESA/Belgium)

• DataLogger (ESA/TssKB)

• Dimae, accelerometer (ESA)

• Teplo, heat pipe experiments

• YES-2