Russia has successfully launched its CORONAS

Russia has successfully launched its CORONAS-Photon spacecraft with Indian payload to study the Solar activity and its impact on the upper atmosphere of our planet.

'Cyclone-3' space launch vehicle lifted off with CORONAS-Photon spacecraft at 1840 IST yesterday from Russia's northern Plesetsk cosmodrome and about two hour later it was placed on its designated orbit, Space Forces spokesman Lt Col Alexei Zolotukhin told 'Zvezda' TV channel of the Defence Ministry.

According to experts of MEFI Institute of Astrophysics, which will be coordinating the research and analysis of the Solar mission, low-energy Gamma radiation telescope RT-2 developed by Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Fundamental Research is a major payload along with the NATALYA sensor developed by several Moscow institutes.