Payload
COSMOS 971
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COSMOS 971 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on December 23, 1977 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 23, 1977 at 04:24 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Parus 11
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,003 km
- Periapsis
- 971 km
- Inclination
- 82.94°
- Orbital period
- 104.85 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 802.78 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1977-122A
- NORAD catalog №
- 10536
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 2.0093 m²
- Status
- active