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The unmanned Foton-M3 capsule, carrying a payload of around 40 European experiments, is scheduled to launch onboard a Soyuz-U rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 13:00 CEST (11:00 UT) on Friday 14 September.
The Foton capsule will spend 12 days orbiting the Earth, exposing the experiments to microgravity and, in the case of a handful of experiments, also exposing them to the harsh environment of open space, before re-entering the atmosphere and landing in the border zone between Russia and Kazakhstan.
The unmanned Foton-M3 capsule, carrying a payload of around 40 European experiments, is scheduled to launch onboard a Soyuz-U rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 13:00 CEST (11:00 UT) on Friday 14 September.
The Foton capsule will spend 12 days orbiting the Earth, exposing the experiments to microgravity and, in the case of a handful of experiments, also exposing them to the harsh environment of open space, before re-entering the atmosphere and landing in the border zone between Russia and Kazakhstan.
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