Payload
COSMOS 906
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 906 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 27, 1977 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 27, 1977 at 03:30 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Kapustin Yar, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- ER763-4
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 230 km
- Periapsis
- 215 km
- Inclination
- 50.63°
- Orbital period
- 88.95 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 2,725.47 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1977-031A
- NORAD catalog №
- 9938
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 12.9156 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 23, 1980
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 23, 1980
- Time in service
- 2.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed