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Status

Success

Cosmos 176

Launch Time
Tue Sep 12, 1967 17:00 UTC

Rocket

Cosmos-2 (63SM)
Image Credit: OKB-586
RVSN USSR
Status: Retired
Liftoff Thrust: 636 kN
Payload to LEO: 400 kg
Payload to GTO: 0 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 29.59 m
Fairing Diameter: 1.65 m
Fairing Height: 2.99 m

Mission Details

Cosmos 176

Cosmos 176 is a satellite of the DS-P constellation. The satellites of the latter are used to test different systems for future Soviet military satellites.
It will test mainly new methods of communication with the ground, new radar systems and modes of power supply by nuclear battery.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 250.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

Site 133/3, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia

Stats

1967

95th orbital launch attempt

Cosmos-2I

17th mission
10th mission of 1967
17th successful mission