Kosmos 954 (US-A #15), a Soviet nuclear-powered RORSAT radar ocean reconnaissance satellite tracking naval ships. Tsiklon-2 from Baikonur Site 90 placed it in low LEO; in January 1978 its reactor failed to reach disposal orbit and scattered radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 34th
- of 105 Tsiklon-2 flights
- Date and time
- 18 September 1977, 13:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1977-090
- Launches in 1977
- 94th of 130
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