Koronas-I Mission

Launch Status

Success

Date & Time

2 Mar 1994, 3:25am

Location

Plesetsk Cosmodrome Launch Site

Plesetsk Cosmodrome

Pad

32/1

Launch Service Provider

Russian Space Forces logo

Russian Space Forces

Vehicle

Tsiklon-3

Mission

Koronas-I

Mission Type

Astrophysics

Destination

Low Earth Orbit

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.

Updated: Jan 3, 7:58pm UTC

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