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COSMOS 959

NORAD 10419 · Payload · Reentered 1977-11-30

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Launched
1977-10-21 · Plesetsk, Russia
Country / operator
CIS (Russia / CIS)
Object type
Payload
Purpose
Target
Mass
1,045 kg
Size
2.5 × 1.8 m · 23 m deployed
Orbit class
LEO (< 2,000 km)
Perigee × Apogee
110 × 171 km
Inclination
65.8°
Period
87.2 min
Eccentricity
0.0047
Orbit data
Reconstructed from catalog orbit

Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).

Same launch

Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.