Kosmos 955

TASS report on the launch of Kosmos-955.

Kosmos 955 (‹See Tfd›Russian: Космос-955; International Designator: 1977-091A, satcat number 10362[1]) was a Soviet ELINT satellite, launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on September 20, 1977, at 01:01 UTC. The satellite's mass was 2,500 kg.[1] Kosmos 955 had a periapsis of 631 km, apoapsis of 664 km, period inclination of 81.2° and an orbital eccentricity of 0.00235. It was launched by a Vostok-2M carrier rocket.[2]

It decayed from orbit on 8 September 2000.[3]

  1. ^ a b "Cosmos 955". NASA. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  2. ^ "Cosmos 955 Launch Information". NASA NSSDCA. Retrieved January 1, 2023.
  3. ^ "CelesTrak: Search Satellite Catalog".