Launch Overview
Vehicle
Tsiklon-3
Agency
Russian Space Forces
Site / Pad
GNIIPV / LC32/1
Outcome
Success
Flight
51024-504
COSPAR Designator
1994-014
Mission
Koronas-I (Astrophysics)
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.
Vehicle & Provider
Rocket
Tsiklon-3
Provider
Russian Space Forces
Agency launches
33 (3 YTD)
Site launches
1443 (3 YTD)
Pad launches
52 (3 YTD)