Kosmos 952 (US-A #14), a Soviet nuclear-powered RORSAT radar ocean reconnaissance satellite for tracking naval surface ships. Tsiklon-2 from Baikonur Site 90 placed the craft in low LEO two days before sister craft Kosmos 954.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 33rd
- of 105 Tsiklon-2 flights
- Date and time
- 16 September 1977, 14:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1977-088
- Launches in 1977
- 92nd of 130
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