Space AtlasCOSMOS 963
NORAD 10491 · Payload · In orbit since 1977
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1977-11-24 · Plesetsk, Russia
- Country / operator
- CIS (Russia / CIS)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Geodesy
- Mass
- 800 kg
- Size
- 3 × 2 m · 17 m deployed
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 1,182 × 1,205 km
- Inclination
- 82.9°
- Period
- 109.1 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0015
- 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.