 Bion spacecraft on display at the Moscow Space Museum | |
| Names | Bion 3 Biocosmos 3 |
|---|---|
| Mission type | Bioscience |
| Operator | Institute of Biomedical Problems |
| COSPAR ID | 1975-110A [1] |
| SATCAT no. | 8450 |
| Mission duration | 19 days, 14 hours and 48 minutes |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft type | Bion |
| Bus | Zenit 12KS |
| Manufacturer | TsSKB |
| Launch mass | 6,000 kg (13,000 lb) |
| Dry mass | 3,100 kg (6,800 lb) [2] |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 25 November 1975, 14:00:00 UTC |
| Rocket | Soyuz-U |
| Launch site | Plesetsk 43/3 |
| Contractor | TsSKB |
| End of mission | |
| Disposal | Recovered |
| Landing date | 15 December 1975, 04:48 UTC [3] |
| Landing site | 52°17′N 64°11′E / 52.283°N 64.183°E Near Amankaragaj, Kazakhstan, USSR |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric[4] |
| Regime | Low Earth orbit |
| Perigee altitude | 226 km (140 mi) |
| Apogee altitude | 405 km (252 mi) |
| Inclination | 62.8° |
| Period | 90.5 minutes |
Kosmos 782 or Bion 3 (Бион 3, Космос 782) was a Bion satellite. It carried 14 experiments prepared by seven countries in all, with participation from scientists in France, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, United States and the Soviet Union.
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