ESA - Human Spaceflight and Exploration - European experiments successfully launched aboard Foton spacecraft

Our vision

Current missions

Past missions

MagISStra Node-3 & Cupola Expert Alissé OasISS Columbus Esperia Celsius Astrolab Eneide DELTA Cervantes Odissea Marco Polo Andromède STS-100

Multimedia

Web Streaming Network (WSN)Multimedia gallery HSF RSS feed

Resources

Erasmus Experiment Archive (EEA)Mission newspapers Press Releases

Services

Calendar Subscribe

Article Images

European experiments successfully launched aboard Foton spacecraft

31 May 2005

Back to article

Download:

HI-RES JPG (Size: 67 KB)

The Soyuz-U launcher, carrying the Foton-M2 capsule into orbit, was successfully launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 14:00 CEST on 31 May 2005.

During the 16-day mission, 39 ESA experiments will be conducted in fluid physics, biology, material science, meteoritics, radiation dosimetry and exobiology.

Credits: ESA

Back to article

End of third stage burn of Soyuz launcher and injection of Foton-M2 unmanned spacecraft into orbit.

Credits: ESA/AOES Medialab

Back to article

Credits: ESA

Foton mission on schedule for launch New Education Fund members support student experiment Successful simulation of Foton-M2 mission ESA and Rosaviakosmos sign up for two Foton flights