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PROGNOZ 9
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Prognoz 9 was a Soviet satellite. It was designed to investigate residual radiation from the Big Bang and gamma-ray bursts in deep space.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 1, 1983 at 12:17 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Prognoz-9
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Earth-Moon L-point
- Reference body
- Earth-Moon L-point
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,050.55 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1983-067A
- NORAD catalog №
- 14163
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- active