Korona launch vehicle
Specialists of the Roscosmos State Rocket Center, which is part of the Roscosmos structure.Makeev plans to present a promising launch vehicle with the name "Crown" to the public during the work of the Army-2023 forum, which starts on the 14th in Kubinka. However, so far only its layout.
The Korona is a fully reusable single-stage launch vehicle with vertical takeoff and landing, which will be capable of both launching payloads into near-Earth orbit and returning them to Earth. With a launch mass of about 310 tons at a height of 42 meters, the Corona will allow sending up to 5.5 tons of payload into orbit and returning about the same amount. In addition, the Corona can act as a vehicle providing point-to-point suborbital flights with unlimited range, as well as refueling objects in orbit and performing their repairs.
Korona launch vehicle
It was already mentioned earlier that the Corona will be designed for 100 launches, which implies a relatively low cost of sending space cargo, and its key feature is the possibility of launching spacecraft from orbit and their descent to Earth.
Max Antonov