Payload
COSMOS 973
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 973 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on December 27, 1977 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 27, 1977 at 08:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Tsiklon-3 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- EPN 03.0380 3
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 316 km
- Periapsis
- 200 km
- Inclination
- 71.43°
- Orbital period
- 89.66 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 5,847.37 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1977-124A
- NORAD catalog №
- 10540
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 9, 1978
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 9, 1978
- Time in service
- 13 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed