Bion (satellite)

Bion
	A Bion spacecraft, on display
Manufacturer	TsSKB Progress
Designer	OKB-1
Country of origin	Soviet Union; Russia
Operator	OKB-1
Applications	Bioscience
Specifications
Regime	Low Earth orbit
Design life	5-22 days
Production
Status	Retired; (Bion-M in service)
Launched	11
Maiden launch	Kosmos 605; 31 October 1973
Last launch	Bion No.11; 24 December 1996
Related spacecraft
Derived from	Vostok; Voskhod; Zenit
Derivatives	Bion-M
Configuration
	; An artist's concept of a Bion satellite in orbit

The Bion satellites (Russian: Бион), also named Biocosmos,^[1] is a series of Soviet (later Russian) biosatellites focused on space medicine.

^ "Display: Bion 2 1974-080A". NASA. 14 May 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2021. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.