Payload
COSMOS 955
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 955 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on September 20, 1977 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 20, 1977 at 01:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Vostok 8A92M →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Tselina-D 13
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 138 km
- Periapsis
- 125 km
- Inclination
- 81.17°
- Orbital period
- 87.11 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 2,477.7 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1977-091A
- NORAD catalog №
- 10362
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 20.7681 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 8, 2000
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 8, 2000
- Time in service
- 23.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed