Coronas I
Official name CORONAS I
Alternative name Coronas-I
Cospar ID 1994-014A
Norad ID 23019
Launch date 1994-03-02
Launch site PKMTR
Launch vehicle Tsiklon-3
Country/Organization Russia
Type application Science, solar
RCS size LARGE
Decay date 2001-03-04
Shape Cyl + 4 Pan
Mass (kg) 2140.73
Diameter (m) 2.3
Height (m) 5
Span (m^2) 12.8
Contractors Yuzhnoye
Configuration AUOS-SM
Power 8 deployable fixed solar arrays, batteries

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:

  • Combined Solar Extreme UV Telescope and Optical Coronograph
  • Solar X-Ray Spectrometer
  • High Resolution Spectrometer
  • X-and Gamma-Ray Spectrometer
  • Solar Burst Spectrometer
  • Solar Ultraviolet Radiometer
  • UV Solar Spectrometer
  • White Light Photometer
  • Solar and Ionospheric Radiospectrometer
  • Energetic Particle Monitor
Satellite COSPAR Date LS Launch Vehicle Remarks
CORONAS I 1994-014A 1994-03-02 PKMTR Tsiklon-3