Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Koronas-Foton (Russian: Коронас-Фотон) also known as CORONAS-Photon (Complex Orbital Observations Near-Earth of Activity of the Sun-Photon) was a Russian Solar research satellite. It is the third satellite in the Russian Coronas programme and part of the international Living With a Star programme. It was launched on 30 January 2009 from Site 32/2 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome aboard the final flight of the Tsyklon-3 rocket.