Payload
COSMOS 870
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 870 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on December 2, 1976 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 2, 1976 at 12:17 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Tselina-O 33
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 163 km
- Periapsis
- 158 km
- Inclination
- 73.91°
- Orbital period
- 87.69 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 867.2 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1976-115A
- NORAD catalog №
- 9573
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 4.9188 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 20, 1980
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 20, 1980
- Time in service
- 4.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed