Payload
COSMOS 900
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 900 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on March 29, 1977 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 29, 1977 at 11:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Oval
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 167 km
- Periapsis
- 147 km
- Inclination
- 82.91°
- Orbital period
- 87.63 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 852.33 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1977-023A
- NORAD catalog №
- 9898
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 5.7864 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 11, 1979
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 11, 1979
- Time in service
- 2.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed