Payload
COSMOS 960
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 960 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on October 25, 1977 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 25, 1977 at 05:25 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Tselina-O 36
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 148 km
- Periapsis
- 135 km
- Inclination
- 74°
- Orbital period
- 87.32 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 867.2 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1977-103A
- NORAD catalog №
- 10430
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 5.0677 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 22, 1980
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 22, 1980
- Time in service
- 3.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed