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Offline FutureSpaceTourist

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CORONA reusable SSTO
« on: 01/27/2018 09:29 pm »
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Move Over Musk: Russia Working On Own, 100-Use, Environmentally Friendly Rocket
21:39 23.01.2018(updated 21:45 23.01.2018)

According to designers, unlike Space X's Falcon 9, the KORONA is not just a rocket, but a spacecraft, capable of takeoff and landing, with its development effectively opening the path to interplanetary flights with crew onboard.

Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau deputy general designer Sergei Molchanov has provided reporters with new information on the KORONA, Russia's totally-new reusable single-stage rocket.

Work on the KORONA, a launch vehicle designed for vertical takeoff and landing, started in the 1990s, but was frozen in 2012 due to lack of funding. However, earlier this month, it was confirmed that the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau was resuming development.

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https://sputniknews.com/science/201801231061006780-new-russian-reusable-spacecraft/

The attached evolution diagram is by user LightLinAI from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORONA_(SSTO)
I’ve no idea if it’s accurate!
« Last Edit: 01/27/2018 09:33 pm by FutureSpaceTourist »
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Offline Space Ghost 1962

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Re: CORONA reusable SSTO
« Reply #1 on: 01/27/2018 09:39 pm »
Reminds of VentureStar in various ways ...
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Re: CORONA reusable SSTO
« Reply #2 on: 01/28/2018 05:28 am »
Looks like hydrolox Aerospike! Liftoff mass is 295 t with 7.5 t payload.
« Last Edit: 01/28/2018 05:31 am by Steven Pietrobon »
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Offline TrevorMonty

Re: CORONA reusable SSTO
« Reply #3 on: 01/28/2018 06:40 am »
Ambitious going for SSTO without cutting their teeth on a TSTO RLV.
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Offline AncientU

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Re: CORONA reusable SSTO
« Reply #4 on: 01/28/2018 05:04 pm »
Since the program was suspended in 2012 due to lack of funds, difficult to imagine that there are now funds available in era of slashed space budgets.  Additional challenge will be to compete for funds among the several (4-5?) new launch systems* currently in development, including a TSTO reusable vehicle.

As an aside, isn't the 2.54% payload mass fraction record setting for a SSTO design?


* In times of tight budgets, consolidation of effort to field new systems would be wiser IMO.  Russia's traditional large numbers of launcher designs might (will) be a burden going forward.
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Re: CORONA reusable SSTO
« Reply #5 on: 01/28/2018 05:12 pm »
Quote from: TrevorMonty on 01/28/2018 06:40 am
Ambitious going for SSTO without cutting their teeth on a TSTO RLV.

Data can be acquired from a 3rd party, rather than experimentally generated.
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Re: CORONA reusable SSTO
« Reply #6 on: 01/29/2018 02:37 pm »
Quote from: AncientU on 01/28/2018 05:04 pm
* In times of tight budgets, consolidation of effort to field new systems would be wiser IMO.  Russia's traditional large numbers of launcher designs might (will) be a burden going forward.
This isn't so much about actually developing anything as it is about preserving the workforce so that next generation of designers will have people to learn from, thus maintaining expertise until it's needed. IMHO this is a sensible policy for governmental agency which thinks about the future.
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Re: CORONA reusable SSTO
« Reply #7 on: 01/29/2018 08:56 pm »
Quote from: asmi on 01/29/2018 02:37 pm
Quote from: AncientU on 01/28/2018 05:04 pm
* In times of tight budgets, consolidation of effort to field new systems would be wiser IMO.  Russia's traditional large numbers of launcher designs might (will) be a burden going forward.
This isn't so much about actually developing anything as it is about preserving the workforce so that next generation of designers will have people to learn from, thus maintaining expertise until it's needed. IMHO this is a sensible policy for governmental agency which thinks about the future.

Nothing wrong with thinking about the future, but best done when the present is covered.
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Re: CORONA reusable SSTO
« Reply #8 on: 01/31/2018 11:10 pm »
In the evolution picture, looks like the second design from the left used an air augmentation shroud for the first stage, assuming it isn't some jet engine pogo zero stage...
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Re: CORONA reusable SSTO
« Reply #9 on: 02/01/2018 12:27 am »
Quote from: Asteroza on 01/31/2018 11:10 pm
assuming it isn't some jet engine pogo zero stage...

It is in the table: 10 x AL-31F
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Offline Tywin

Re: CORONA reusable SSTO
« Reply #10 on: 06/27/2019 09:16 pm »
This project is already dead?
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Offline whitelancer64

Re: CORONA reusable SSTO
« Reply #11 on: 06/27/2019 09:52 pm »
Quote from: Tywin on 06/27/2019 09:16 pm
This project is already dead?

It was suspended in 2012.
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Offline Tywin

Re: CORONA reusable SSTO
« Reply #12 on: 03/30/2023 08:11 pm »
Look like is alive again...
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Re: CORONA reusable SSTO
« Reply #13 on: 03/30/2023 08:21 pm »
Quote from: Tywin on 03/30/2023 08:11 pm
Look like is alive again...



Citation Needed.
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Re: CORONA reusable SSTO
« Reply #14 on: 03/30/2023 09:20 pm »
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Re: CORONA reusable SSTO
« Reply #15 on: 03/31/2023 02:41 pm »
Yeah, I remember back in 2018 they said CORONA was back on and never heard anything else since. I just assumed it was cancelled again, quietly. It doesn't look like they've made much progress on it.
« Last Edit: 03/31/2023 08:36 pm by jstrotha0975 »
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Re: CORONA reusable SSTO
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Re: CORONA reusable SSTO
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Re: CORONA reusable SSTO
« Reply #18 on: 10/31/2025 05:05 am »
https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/18569

R&D to be started (well, resumed) in 2026.
« Last Edit: 10/31/2025 05:10 am by SnowyOwl »
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Re: CORONA reusable SSTO
« Reply #19 on: 11/05/2025 01:11 am »
Quote from: SnowyOwl on 10/31/2025 05:05 am
https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/18569
R&D to be started (well, resumed) in 2026.

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An extended meeting of the Scientific and Technical Council was held at the Roscosmos facility, the Makeyev State Space Center, to review and defend the final materials and results of the Korona research project, validating key technologies for creating a fully reusable launch vehicle.

The results of tests and calculations confirmed the feasibility of the project.

Sounds like the R&D is done, and they have agreed to proceed with development of the vehicle?
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