CORONAS

CORONAS-F Tracking

CORONAS-F

Mission details

The CORONAS project envisioned solar research missions during different phases of the 11-year long solar cycle. While CORONAS-I, launched in March 1994, operated during the solar activity minimum, CORONAS-F was scheduled for launch near the current 23rd solar activity cycle maximum.

The scientific leaders of the project are

Director of IZMIRAN prof. V.N. Oraevsky
Head of Optics Department of the Lebedev Physical Institute (FIAN), corresp. memebr of the Russian Acad. Sci. I.I. Sobel'man.

Technical Head of the project is

Dr. V.I. Dranovsky (Design Bureau "Yuzhnoye", Ukraine)

CORONAS is an international project prepared in cooperation between Russian and Ukranian space agencies and Academies of sciences. Taking part in the project are also Poland, Germany, France, United Kingdom and USA.

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