OREANDA-NEWS  Scientists of Samara Korolev University have manufactured a multichannel space temperature recorder (MRI) from domestic components, which will be located at the Bion-M orbital laboratory No. 2 with fungi, bacteria and other biological objects, the press service of the university told reporters.

According to Samara scientists, the new equipment has no analogues either in Russia or abroad. It is assumed that the MRI-2 will later become standard equipment for use in subsequent domestic orbital laboratories of the Bion-M series. These spacecraft are launched to conduct biological research.

"The work on the creation of the MRT-2 scientific equipment has been fully completed, the equipment has successfully passed the planned cycle of ground tests and is ready to be sent for final assembly as part of the Bion-M spacecraft No. 2. The multi-channel temperature recorder is a system for constant monitoring of the temperature regime at certain points in the design of containers with biological objects, these containers will be placed on the outer surface of the orbital laboratory in open space conditions," said Lyubov Kurganskaya, a leading researcher at the Research Institute of Modeling and Control Problems of Samara University.