Kosmos 956 (EPN 03.0380 #2), a dynamic mass simulator of a Tselina-D ELINT satellite flown to evaluate the Tsiklon-3 launch vehicle. Tsiklon-3 from Plesetsk Site 32/2 successfully placed the test payload in LEO on this early vehicle checkout flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.8 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 122 Tsiklon-3 flights
- Date and time
- 24 September 1977, 10:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-3
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 32/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1977-095
- Launches in 1977
- 99th of 130
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