Payload
COSMOS 956
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 956 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on September 24, 1977 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 24, 1977 at 04:30 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- AUOS-Z-R-E-IK 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 151 km
- Periapsis
- 139 km
- Inclination
- 75.79°
- Orbital period
- 87.38 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,982.16 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1977-095A
- NORAD catalog №
- 10375
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 6.4526 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 27, 1982
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 27, 1982
- Time in service
- 4.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed