OREANDA-NEWS. January 13, 2009. NPP VNIIEM experts continue prelaunch processing of the Coronas-Photon spacecraft and its scientific payloads. The spacecraft is to be launched on Jan. 29, 2009.

CORONAS (Complex Orbital Observations Near-Earth of Activity of the Sun) is a Russian program aimed at studying physics of the Sun and solar-terrestrial links by series of spacecrafts, which covers operations of three solar-oriented satellites in the near-Earth orbit.

CORONAS-PHOTON is the third satellite in this series. Two previous missions of the project are CORONAS-I (launched on March 2, 1994) and CORONAS-F (launched on July 31, 2001).
CORONAS-PHOTON is a part of the International Living With a Star Program (ILWS).

Coronas-Photon is developed by two Russian Federal Space Agency`s companies: NPP VNIIEM – Iosifyan Russian R&D Electromechanics Institute and Plant, and NIIEM – Research Institute for Electromechanics (Moscow region, Istra).

CORONAS-PHOTON is developed under the Russian Federal Space Program implemeted by the Federal Space Agency.