Kosmos 906 (ER763-4), a mass-model dummy satellite used as a Kosmos-3M payload substitute, launched from Kapustin Yar Site 107 into LEO (~463×513 km, 50.7°) as a vehicle/test flight rather than an operational spacecraft.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 100 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 152nd
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 27 April 1977, 03:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 107/1, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1977-031
- Launches in 1977
- 32nd of 130
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