Payload
COSMOS 976
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COSMOS 976 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on January 10, 1978 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 10, 1978 at 08:51 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Strela-1M 137-144
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,463 km
- Periapsis
- 1,455 km
- Inclination
- 74.03°
- Orbital period
- 115.08 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 39.64 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1978-005A
- NORAD catalog №
- 10581
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 0.6539 m²
- Status
- active