MOSCOW. July 24 (Interfax-AVN) - The scientific payload of the Foton-M research spacecraft is working and scientific data is being transmitted to the Earth, a source in the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medical and Biological Problems told Interfax-AVN.
"Scientific instruments are working and the spacecraft is transmitting telemetric data. A pilot experiment based on the telemetry has begun," the source said.
Scientific data from the spacecraft instruments operating in the automatic mode will be obtained in any case, he said.
Samara CSKB-Progress, which designed and built Foton-M4, said earlier contact with the spacecraft had been disrupted.