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Satellite:
Coronas-Photon
Satellite details
Acronym
Coronas-Photon
Full name
Complex Orbital Observations Near-Earth of Activity of the Sun - Photon
Satellite Description
3rd flight unit of the Coronas programme.
Main mission: solar processes observation.
Mass at launch
1900 kg
Dry mass
Power
2000 W
Data access link
no link provided
Data access information
Data available from several scientific institutes, main: Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI).
Orbit
Drifting orbit
Altitude
550 km
Inclination
82.5
°
Space agency
Roscosmos
Status
Inactive
Details on Status (as
available)
Launch
30 Jan 2009
EOL
01 Dec 2009
Last update:
2015-07-27
Associated satellite programme and related satellites
Note: red tag: no longer operational , green tag: operational ,
blue tag : future
Satellite Payload
All known Instruments flying on
Coronas-Photon
Acronym
Full name
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
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Satellite payload
All known instruments flying on
Coronas-Photon
* The information in this field is estimated or assumed