Payload
COSMOS 837
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 8927
COSMOS 837 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on July 1, 1976 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- July 1, 1976 at 08:05 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 144 km
- Periapsis
- 133 km
- Inclination
- 62.68°
- Orbital period
- 87.26 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,238.85 kg
- Dimensions
- 4.2 × 1.6 × 4.2 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1976-062A
- NORAD catalog №
- 8927
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 8.7145 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 18, 1983
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 18, 1983
- Time in service
- 7.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed