Koronas-F

 2001-032A

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Koronas (Complex orbital Near Earth obs. of solar activity). The Koronas F satellite was led by FIAN (Lebedev) and carried a UV/X-ray solar study payload. Mass was 2260 kg. The satellite was AUOS-SM-KF.

Koronas F
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2001 Jul 31	0800:00	Launch
	0802	T+2:00 St 1 sep
	0803	T+3:31 Fairing
	0804	T+4:30 St 2 MECO
	0804	T+4:37 St 2 sep
	0805	T+5:20 S5M burn 1
	0807	T+7:04 S5M MECO-1	170? x 500? x 82.5
	0850	T+50:00 S5M MES-2
	0850:09	T+50:09 S5M MECO-2
	0850:39	T+50:39 min S5M sep	94.78 486 x 529 x 82.5
2002 Nov 7		Malfunction in transmitter, reduced data flow
2005 May		End of operations?
2005 Dec 6		Reentered

Payload:

• DIFOS Solar opt/uv total-disk variability (IZMIRAN)

• SORS Solar radio bursts (IZMIRAN), two crossed-antenna radiometers

• ZENIT Solar corona study 7500-8500 A, 1' res at 2 Rsun(IZMIRAN)

• SUFR Solar UV luminosity variability 1-1300A (Fedorov Inst)

• VUSS UV L-alpha resonance line, flux in 50A bandpass (Fedorov Inst)

• DIAGENESS Solar X active regions 5", 1s, 1-5 keV and 2-160 keV (Poland/IZMIRAN)

• RESIK Solar X crystal spectrometer (Poland/IZIMIRAN)

• IRIS Solar flare X-ray spectrometer 2-200 keV (Ioffe PTI)

• HELIKON Solar flare X and gamma ray detector 10 keV-8MeV(Ioffe PTI)

• SKL Solar cosmic ray spectrometer (gamma 0.03-100 MeV, n, e, p, He) (MGU)

• RES-K Solar active area X-ray line imaging 6" Fe, Mg, XUV (FIAN)

• SRT 1" resolution solar X-ray telescope (FIAN)

• RPS X-ray radiation from flares (IKI) 3-30 keV, at Fe 5.9 keV.

• SPR-N X-ray polarimeter (FIAN) 20-100 keV

• AVS Solar flare X and gamma ray detectors (MIFI) 3 keV - 6 MeV