[FPSPACE] Koronas-Foton satellite in trouble

[Anatoly Zak]

Unlike Meteor and Arkon-2, Koronas-Foton had to be oriented toward the Sun
for prolonged periods of time, which became a source of current problems.
I've posted a summary of discussion on the Novosti Kosmonavtiki forum here:

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/koronas_foton.html#problem

Anatoly Zak


On 12/13/09 4:42 AM, "Allen Thomson" <thomsona at flash.net> wrote:

> 
>> Koronas-Foton was built by the NIIEM organization in Istra near
>> Moscow and uses the same bus as the Meteor-3M satellite.
> 
> Hmm. NIIEM and a Meteor bus go back to the recent Arkon radarsat thread.
> 
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