Kosmos 960, a Tselina-O electronic-intelligence satellite for the Soviet military, launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk into low Earth orbit to locate and characterize foreign radar and communications emitters.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 434 kg
- Flight
- 167th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 25 October 1977, 05:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1977-103
- Launches in 1977
- 108th of 130
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