Kosmos 901 (DS-P1-I #19), a Soviet radar-calibration and target satellite for air-defense and missile-defense tracking practice. Kosmos-2 (11K63) from Plesetsk Site 133/1 placed the Dnepropetrovsk craft in LEO as a passive radar reflector/target.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 200 kg
- Flight
- 125th
- of 126 Kosmos 11K63 flights
- Date and time
- 5 April 1977, 10:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos 11K63
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1977-025
- Launches in 1977
- 26th of 130
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