Cosmos 1667

Russia

Also called Bion 7

Launch data:

Designation	15891 / 85059A
Launch date	10 Jul 1985
Launch site	Pl, LC-41/1
Launch vehicle:	Soyuz-U (11A511U)
Mission	Biological sat.
Satellite type	Bion #7
Earth orbit on:
Perigee / Apogee	206 / 262 km
Inclination	82,36°
Period	min

Spacecraft data:

Prime contractor
Customer
Platform
Mass at launch	5700 kg
Dry Mass	kg
Basic shape
Dimension
Solar array
Stabilization
DC power

Decay:

Recovered date:	17 Jul 1985
Lifetime:	days

Mission details:

Biological research. Carried monkeys Verny and Gordy. Continued investigations of the influence of space flight factors on living organisms and radiation physics research. Cosmos 1667 was the second USSR biosatellite mission with a primate payload. Cosmos 1667 also featured a large rodent payload, however the U.S. only conducted a single experiment cardiovascular experiment on one of the two flight monkeys. Mission parameters were very similar to those of Cosmos 1514. Countries participating in the mission included the USSR, U.S., France, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. Although the U.S. experiment on the Cosmos 1667 mission was meant to be a repeat of the Cosmos 1514 cardiovascular experiment, several improvements were implemented on this mission. Modified post-surgery animal handling procedures minimised the risk of damaging the transducer implants. Data was sampled and recorded more frequently during the inflight period. Two monkeys with flight-type cardiovascular instrumentation were studied in a ground-based Synchronous Control experiment; postflight cardiovascular tests were not conducted after Cosmos 1514. Postural tilt tests were conducted during the pre-flight and post-flight periods in several animals to establish a ground-based pool of normal data for this procedure. This data was compared with the similar body fluid shifts thought to occur in flight. Instrument calibration procedures were modified on this mission to ensure that blood pressure measurements would be accurate. The main objective of U.S. participation in the Cosmos 1667 mission was to measure carotid artery pressure and blood flow during the inflight period. The U.S. provided all flight and ground support instrumentation for this experiment. Raw analogue data from flight and ground control experiments was transferred to the Cardiovascular Research Laboratory at the NASA Ames Research Center for analysis. Hemodynamic data was to be correlated with concurrently recorded Soviet data. A similar correlative study was performed during the Cosmos 1514 mission, where blood flow velocity was compared to total body cardiac output as determined by impedance cardiography. Two rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) were flown onboard the Biosatellite. Each animal weighed approximately 4 kilograms. Both were instrumented for Soviet neurophysiology studies. The instruments consisted of bilaterally implanted microelectrodes in the vestibular nuclei, and electro-oculogram and electroencephalogram electrodes. Monkeys were housed in Soviet BIOS capsules, as for the Cosmos 1514 mission. U.S. hardware developed for the Cosmos 1514 cardiovascular experiment was used again on this mission. A barometric pressure recorder mounted in the primate capsule was used to correct and normalise the implanted pressure sensor to 760 mm Hg.

Ref.: #1, #3(SD298), #15 - update: 16.02.04