Kosmos 962, a Zaliv military navigation satellite for the Soviet Navy, launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/1 into low Earth orbit to expand the Doppler naval navigation constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 168th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 28 October 1977, 16:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1977-107
- Launches in 1977
- 112th of 130
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