Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
03:25:00
Wednesday March 2, 1994
KORONAS-I (or CORONAS-I), a Russian-Ukranian spacecraft, was launched by a Tsiklon-3 booster from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. It carried UV and x-ray instruments to map the Sun and plasma monitors to study the ionosphere and magnetosphere.
Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
2,160 kilograms
109th
Mission
3rd
Mission of 1994
15th
Orbital launch attempt