Payload
COSMOS 970
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COSMOS 970 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on December 21, 1977 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 21, 1977 at 10:35 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-2 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- IS-A 8
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,146 km
- Periapsis
- 926 km
- Inclination
- 65.85°
- Orbital period
- 105.89 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,400 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1977-121A
- NORAD catalog №
- 10531
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 3.878 m²
- Status
- active