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COSMOS 861

NORAD 9494 · Payload · In orbit since 1976

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Launched
1976-10-21 · Baikonur, Kazakhstan
Country / operator
CIS (Russia / CIS)
Object type
Payload
Purpose
Signals intelligence
Mass
1,150 kg
Size
5.8 × 1.3 m
Orbit class
LEO (< 2,000 km)
Perigee × Apogee
924 × 991 km
Inclination
64.9°
Period
104.1 min
Eccentricity
0.0046
Orbit data
Reconstructed from catalog orbit

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