CORONA is a
single-stage-to-orbit
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launch vehicle capable of performing
vertical takeoff and landing
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. It was developed by
OAO GRTs Makeyev from 1992 to 2012. However, the development was declined due to lack of funding. In 2016, the company announced plans to resume the development of the CORONA vehicle.
Overview
CORONA is intended for launching payloads to
low Earth orbit
A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less than 0.25. Most of the artificial objects in outer space are in LEO, with an altitude never mor ...
with an altitude of . It has a launch mass of and is intended for launching payloads weighing up to with traditional use or up to with a special scheme for launching into low Earth orbit. However, the payload capacity goes down to and up to respectively when launching from
Russia
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. With the use of reusable boosters that form a launch complex with it, the launch vehicle provides launching into orbits with an inclination of up to 110° up to altitudes of and returning from them if necessary.
See also
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Lockheed Martin X-33
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Blue Origin New Shepard
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Quad (rocket)
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General description
The quad vehicle design is a pressure fed in blow-down mode fr ...
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SpaceX reusable launch system development program
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McDonnell Douglas DC-X
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Project Morpheus
Project Morpheus was a NASA project that began in 2010 to develop a vertical takeoff and vertical landing (VTVL) test vehicle called the Morpheus Lander. It is intended to demonstrate a new nontoxic spacecraft propellant system (methane and ox ...
NASA program to continue developing ALHAT and Quad landers
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Reusable Vehicle Testing
The Reusable Vehicle Testing (RVT) project was conducted by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) from 1998 until 2003. The project involved a series of experimental vehicles to test repeated flights of a reusable rocket. Four complete vehicles were d ...
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Kankoh-maru
The is a proposed vertical takeoff and landing (VTVL), single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO), reusable launch system (rocket-powered spacecraft). According to a document from July 1997, it would have been manufactured by Kawasaki Heavy Industries and M ...
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 -. .
* Kosmodem'yanskii AA Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. - 2nd supplemented. - M:. Science, 1987. - 304 p. - 80,000 copies.
External links
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Single-stage-to-orbit
Former proposed space launch system concepts
VTVL rockets
Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau