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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
Launch vehicle
Tsiklon-3 →
Launch provider
Russian Space Forces →

Payloads deployed · 1

CORONAS I
LEO