Kosmos 880

{{Infobox spaceflight

| name = Kosmos 880

| mission_type = ASAT target

| operator =

| COSPAR_ID = 1976-120A

| SATCAT =

| mission_duration =

| spacecraft_type = Lira

| manufacturer = Yuzhnoye

| launch_mass = {{convert|650|kg}}

| launch_date = {{start-date|9 December 1976, 20:00|timezone=yes}} UTC

| launch_rocket = Kosmos-3M

| launch_site = Plesetsk 132/2

| decay_date =

| orbit_epoch =

| orbit_reference = Geocentric

| orbit_regime = Low Earth

| orbit_periapsis = {{convert|558|km}}

| orbit_apoapsis = {{convert|614|km}}

| orbit_inclination = 65.8 degrees

| orbit_period = 96.3 minutes

| apsis = gee

}}

Kosmos 880 ({{langx|ru|Космос 880}} meaning Cosmos 880) was a satellite which was used as a target for tests of anti-satellite weapons. It was launched by the Soviet Union in 1976 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme,{{cite web|url=http://www.astronautix.com/craft/dsp1m.htm|title=DS-P1-I|last=Wade|first=Mark|publisher=Encyclopedia Astronautica|access-date=30 May 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105105926/http://www.astronautix.com/craft/dsp1m.htm|archive-date=5 January 2009|df=dmy-all}} and used as a target for Kosmos 886, as part of the Istrebitel Sputnikov programme.{{cite web|url=http://www.astronautix.com/craft/isa.htm|title=IS-A|last=Wade|first=Mark|publisher=Encyclopedia Astronautica|access-date=30 May 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120122021229/http://www.astronautix.com/craft/isa.htm|archive-date=22 January 2012|df=dmy-all}}

It was launched aboard a Kosmos-3M carrier rocket,{{cite web|url=http://planet4589.org/space/log/launchlog.txt|title=Launch Log|last=McDowell|first=Jonathan|author-link=Jonathan McDowell|publisher=Jonathan's Space Page|access-date=30 May 2009}} from Site 132/2 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The launch occurred at 20:00 UTC on 9 December 1976.{{cite web|url=http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/kosmos3.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906135113/http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/kosmos3.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 September 2008|title=Kosmos 3|last=Wade|first=Mark|publisher=Encyclopedia Astronautica|access-date=30 May 2009}}

Kosmos 880 was placed into a low Earth orbit with a perigee of {{convert|558|km}}, an apogee of {{convert|614|km}}, 65.8 degrees of inclination, and an orbital period of 96.3 minutes. It was successfully intercepted and destroyed by Kosmos 886 on 27 December 1976. The last catalogued piece of debris decayed from orbit on 9 December 2001 (although pieces of debris of Kosmos 886, the intercepting device, remain in orbit as of 2023).{{cite web|url=http://www.planet4589.org/space/log/satcat.txt|title=Satellite Catalog|last=McDowell|first=Jonathan|publisher=Jonathan's Space Page|access-date=30 May 2009}}

Kosmos 880 was the fourth of ten Lira satellites to be launched, of which all but the first were successful. Lira was derived from the earlier DS-P1-M satellite, which it replaced.