Payload
COSMOS 917
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COSMOS 917 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on June 16, 1977 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 16, 1977 at 01:58 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- US-K 7
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 587 km
- Periapsis
- 182 km
- Inclination
- 61.8°
- Orbital period
- 92.24 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,150 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1977-047A
- NORAD catalog №
- 10059
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 6.494 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 4, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 4, 2023
- Time in service
- 45.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed