Payload
COSMOS 943
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COSMOS 943 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on August 24, 1977 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 24, 1977 at 02:29 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz U →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Zenit-4MKM 4
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,462 km
- Periapsis
- 1,450 km
- Inclination
- 74.02°
- Orbital period
- 115.01 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 39.64 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1977-079E
- NORAD catalog №
- 10289
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 0.6652 m²
- Status
- active
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