CORONA (SSTO)

CORONA is an unmanned prototype of a reusable single-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle developed from 1992 to 2012. In 2016, the company announced plans to resume CORONA development.[1]

CORONA

CORONA (RLV) concept
Function	Proposed SSTO vehicle
Manufacturer	Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau
Country of origin	Russia
Size
Height	30 m (98 ft)
Diameter	10 m (33 ft)
Mass	300,000 kg (660,000 lb)
Stages	1
Launch history
Status	under development
Single stage
Gross mass	300,000 kg (660,000 lb)
Fuel	LOX/LH2

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

1. "«Россиянка», КОРОНА, «Феникс» —достойная компания p.2 //Конструктор №8 2016". ОАО «ГРЦ Макеева». 29 August 2016. Archived from the original (pdf) on 16 May 2017.

• 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.

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