Payload
COSMOS 901
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 901 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 5, 1977 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 5, 1977 at 10:30 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos 11K63 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- DS-P1-I 19
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 201 km
- Periapsis
- 159 km
- Inclination
- 70.96°
- Orbital period
- 88.08 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 297.32 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1977-025A
- NORAD catalog №
- 9905
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 1.8398 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 28, 1978
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 28, 1978
- Time in service
- 1.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed