Kosmos 775

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Kosmos 775
Mission type Early warning
Operator VKS
COSPAR ID 1975-097A
SATCAT № 8357
Mission duration failed
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type US-KS (74Kh6)[1]
Manufacturer Lavochkin[1]
Launch mass 2,400 kilograms (5,300 lb)[1]
Start of mission
Launch date 8 October 1975, 00:30:00 (1975-10-08UTC00:30Z) UTC[2]
Rocket Proton-K/DM
Launch site Baikonur 81/23
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Geostationary
Instruments
Optical telescope with 50 centimetres (20 in) aperture [1]
Infrared sensor/s [1]
Smaller telescopes[1]

Kosmos 775 (Russian: Космос 775 meaning Cosmos 775) is a Soviet US-KS missile early warning satellite which was launched in 1975 as part of the Oko programme. The satellite is designed to identify missile launches using optical telescopes and infrared sensors.[1]

Kosmos 775 was launched from Site 81/23 at Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR.[1] A Proton-K carrier rocket with a DM upper stage was used to perform the launch, which took place at 00:30 UTC on 8 October 1975.[2][3] The launch attempted to place the satellite into geostationary orbit. It subsequently received its Kosmos designation, and the international designator 1975-097A.[2] The United States Space Command assigned it the Satellite Catalog Number 8357.[2][3]

It was the first US-KS satellite and was never operational. Podvig says its orbit was never stabilised,[3] NASA's National Space Science Data Centre says it exploded.[2] The next launch of one of these craft was Kosmos 1546 in 1984.

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