MOSCOW, July 26 (RIA Novosti) - Experts managed to restore communication with the Russian satellite Foton-M, a source in the space industry told RIA Novosti.
"Communication with the satellite has been restored," the source said.
Foton-M was launched on July 19 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a mission to study the effect of weightlessness on living organisms, and to conduct experiments on the growth of semiconductor crystals.
Communication with the spacecraft was lost the day it was launched.
Earlier on Thursday, Roscosmos, Russia’s Federal Space Agency, told RIA Novosti that the reception of telemetry data from the Foton-M, even after connection with the biosatellite was lost, proves that it can operate autonomously for a long time.
The agency specified that the design and onboard control systems of the Foton-M enable its self-sufficient operation.
