Payload
COSMOS 957
DecayedPayloadLEO
COSMOS 957 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on September 30, 1977 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 30, 1977 at 01:02 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Intelsat-4A 5
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 301 km
- Periapsis
- 160 km
- Inclination
- 64.97°
- Orbital period
- 89.11 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 6,243.81 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1977-098A
- NORAD catalog №
- 10385
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 13, 1977
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 13, 1977
- Time in service
- 13 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed