Kosmos 861 (US-A #13), a Soviet nuclear-powered Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite (RORSAT). Tsiklon-2 from Baikonur Site 90 placed the BES-5 reactor-powered active-radar craft in LEO to track NATO and merchant ships at sea.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 27th
- of 105 Tsiklon-2 flights
- Date and time
- 21 October 1976, 16:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1976-104
- Launches in 1976
- 106th of 131
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