CORONA (SSTO)

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

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]

## 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" (pdf). ОАО «ГРЦ Макеева». 29 August 2016. Archived from the original on 16 September 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170516174121/http://www.makeyev.ru/netcat_files/7/17/h_12dca3ca41152553cd2e3ed2bc1876d3.

* 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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