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CORONA

CORONA (RLV) concept
Function	Propsed SSTO vehicle
Manufacturer	Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau
Country of origin	Russia
Size
Height	30 metres (98 ft)
Diameter	10 metres (33 ft)
Mass	30,000 kilograms (66,000 lb)
Stages	1
Launch history
Status	Development stopped
First stage
Diameter	10 metres (33 ft)
Gross mass	30,000 kilograms (66,000 lb)
Propellant	Liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen

Simulated in-flight view of the CORONA

CORONA on launchpad

CORONA was an unmanned prototype of a reusable single-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle developed by Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau from 1992 to 2012. As of the 2013 work curtailed due to lack of funding.

Design

Evolution of CORONA concept

It is intended for the launch of space vehicles and the spacecraft in the low-Earth circular orbits of 200-500 km. The launch weight of about 300 tons.

See also

• Lockheed Martin X-33
• Blue Origin New Shepard
• Quad (rocket)
• Zarya
• SpaceX reusable launch system development program
• McDonnell Douglas DC-X
• Project Morpheus NASA program to continue developing ALHAT and Quad landers
• Reusable Vehicle Testing
• Kankoh-maru

References

• New in the development of rocket and space systems: single-stage reusable rocket "CROWN" // Aerospace Technology. Scientific and technical collection. Issue 1 (43) Part 2 / holes. YP Panov, editor EA Osipova. - Miass: SRC "Design Bureau. Academician VP Makeyev ", 1999. - S. 181 - 209. - (XIV). - 400 copies.
• On the possible ways of development of reusable space transportation systems (MTX) // Aerospace Technology. Scientific and technical collection. Issue 1 (48) Part II / holes. OD Parkhomenko, EA Editor Osipova. - Miass: SRC "Design Bureau. Academician VP Makeyev ", 2002. - S. 120 - 340. - (XIV). - 300 copies.
• Anton Pervushin. Chapter 15. Heirs "Buran". The "cold" // The battle for the stars. Part II. The cosmic confrontation. - Moscow: OOO "Publishing ACT», 2004. - 831 p.. - 5000 copies -. ISBN 5-17-024200-X.
• Kosmodem'yanskii AA Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. - 2nd supplemented. - M:. Science, 1987. - 304 p. - 80,000 copies.