Payload
COSMOS 838
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COSMOS 838 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on July 2, 1976 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 2, 1976 at 10:30 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-2 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- US-P 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 443 km
- Periapsis
- 414 km
- Inclination
- 65.06°
- Orbital period
- 93.15 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 3,000 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1976-063A
- NORAD catalog №
- 8932
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 36.872 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 23, 1977
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 23, 1977
- Time in service
- 1.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed