KORONAS-FOTON
2009-01-30
Satellite information KORONAS-FOTON
| Spacetrack Directory Name | KORONAS-FOTON |
| Orbit launches |
2009-01-30 |
| Country/organisation of origin | Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS) |
| Starting point | PLMSC (Plesetsk Missile and Space Complex, Russia) |
| WWW | Here |
| Categories | |
| Perigee | 506 km |
| Apogee | 531 km |
Additional information KORONAS-FOTON
Koronas-Foton (Russian: ???????-?????), also known as CORONAS-Photon (Complex Orbital Observations Near-Earth of Activity of the Sun-Photon), was a Russian Solar research satellite. It is the third satellite in the Russian Coronas programme, and part of the international Living With a Star programme. It was launched on 30 January 2009, from Site 32/2 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, aboard the final flight of the Tsyklon-3 rocket. On 1 December 2009 all scientific instruments on the satellite were turned off due to the problems with power supply that were caused by a design flaw. On 18 April 2010 the creators of the satellite announced it was lost "with a good deal of certainty".
satellite KORONAS-FOTON Date of exalting 30.01.2009y.
