CORONAS programme explained

Complex Orbital Observations Near-Earth of Activity of the Sun, or CORONAS, was a Russian Solar observation satellite programme. Three satellites were launched: CORONAS-I, CORONAS-F, and CORONAS-Photon.

CORONAS-I

CORONAS-I was launched in 1994.^[1]

The satellites had 12 instrumenents:^[1]

• TEREK-C - Solar XUV Telescope/Coronagraph
• RES-C - Solar X-ray Spectral Polarimeter
• DIOGENESS - Diagnostic of Energy Sources and Sinks in Flares
• HELICON - Solar X-ray and gamma-ray Scintillation Spectrometer
• IRIS - Solar Burst Spectrometer
• SUFR-Sp-C - Solar UV Radiometer
• VUSS - Vacuum UV Solar spectrum
• DIFOS - Solar Flux Optical Photometer
• SORS - Solar Radiospectrometer
• SKL-particles - Solar Cosmic-ray Spectrometer Complex - particles
• AVS - Amplitude-time Spectrum Analyser
• SKL-rad - Solar Cosmic-ray Spectrometer Complex - radiation

CORONAS-F

CORONAS-I was launched in 2001 and worked until 2005.^{[2] [3]}

The satellites had 16 instrumenents:^[2]

• TEREK-C - Solar XUV Telescope/Coronagraph
• RES-C - Solar X-ray Spectral Polarimeter
• DIOGENESS - Diagnostic of Energy Sources and Sinks in Flares
• HELICON - Solar X-ray and gamma-ray Scintillation Spectrometer
• IRIS - Solar Burst Spectrometer
• SUFR-Sp-C - Solar UV Radiometer
• VUSS - Vacuum UV Solar spectrum
• DIFOS - Solar Flux Optical Photometer
• SORS - Solar Radiospectrometer
• SKL-particles - Solar Cosmic-ray Spectrometer Complex - particles
• SPR-N - Solar X-ray Polarimeter
• RESIK - X-ray Spectrometer
• AVS - Amplitude-time Spectrum Analyser
• RPS-1 - X-ray Semi-conductor Spectrometer
• IMAP-5 - Three-axis Magnetometer
• SKL-rad - Solar Cosmic-ray Spectrometer Complex - radiation

CORONAS-Photon

See main article: CORONAS-Photon.

CORONAS-Photon was launched on 30 January 2009, from 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.^{[4] [5]} On 18 April 2010 the creators of the satellite announced it was lost "with a good deal of certainty".^{[6] [7]}

The satellite had 11 instruments:^[8]

• Natalya-2M-rad - High energy radiation spectrometer - radiation
• RT-2 - Roentgen Telescope-2
• Penguin-M - Hard X-ray polarimeter-spectrometer
• Konus-RF - X-ray and gamma-ray spectrometer
• BRM - Fast X-ray Monitor
• PHOKA - Multi-channel ultraviolet monitor
• TESIS - Telescope-spectrometer for imaging solar spectroscopy in X-rays
• Electron-M-PESCA - Charged particle analyzer
• STEP-F - Satellite telescope of electrons and protons
• Natalya-2M-particles - High energy radiation spectrometer - particles
• SM-8M Magnetometer

Notes and References

1. Web site: WMO OSCAR Satellite: Coronas-I . space.oscar.wmo.int . 22 October 2024.
2. Web site: WMO OSCAR Satellite: Coronas-F . space.oscar.wmo.int . 22 October 2024.
3. Book: Kuznetsov, V. D.. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-39268-9_1. The Coronas-F Space Mission: Key Results for Solar Terrestrial Physics. CORONAS-F Project: The Study of Solar Activity and Its Effects on the Earth . Astrophysics and Space Science Library . Vladimir. Kuznetsov. October 22, 2014. 400 . Springer. 1–26. Springer Link. 10.1007/978-3-642-39268-9_1. 978-3-642-39268-9 .
4. News: ru:Спутник "Коронас-Фотон" не работает из-за проблем с питанием . http://www.rian.ru/science/20091211/198635487.html . RIA Novosti . 2009-12-11 . ru . Coronas-Foton satellite doesn't work due to the problems with the power supply .
5. News: ru:"Коронас-Фотон" сломался из-за переоценки ресурса аккумуляторов . http://www.rian.ru/science/20100111/203883494.html . RIA Novosti . 2010-01-11 . ru . Coronas-Foton broke down because battery resource was underestimated .
6. http://www.tesis.lebedev.ru/info/tesis_20100418.php КОРОНАС-ФОТОН, по-видимому, умер
7. News: ru:Солнце не смогло оживить научный спутник "Коронас-Фотон" . http://www.rian.ru/science/20100418/223944222.html . RIA Novosti . 2010-04-19 . ru . The Sun couldn't revive the Coronas-Foton scientific satellite .
8. Web site: WMO OSCAR Satellite: Coronas-Photon . space.oscar.wmo.int . 22 October 2024.