1994 · Russian Space Forces
Koronas-I
successTsiklon-3 | Koronas-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.
Overview
- Date / time
- March 2, 1994 at 03:25 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- 32/1
- Mission
- Koronas-I
- Mission type
- Astrophysics
- Orbit achieved
- Low Earth Orbit