Coronas I
KORONAS-I (or CORONAS-I), a Russian-Ukranian spacecraft, was launched by a Tsiklon-3 booster from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. It carried UV and x-ray instruments to map the Sun and plasma monitors to study the ionosphere and magnetosphere:
Nation: | Russia |
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Type / Application: | Science, solar |
Operator: | |
Contractors: | Yuzhnoye |
Equipment: | |
Configuration: | AUOS-SM |
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Power: | 8 deployable fixed solar arrays, batteries |
Lifetime: | |
Mass: | 2160 kg |
Orbit: | 501 km × 541 km, 82.5° |
Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
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Koronas I (Coronas I) (AUOS-SM-KI #1) | 1994-014A | 02.03.1994 | Pl LC-32/1 | Tsiklon-3 |