Payload
COSMOS 8 (SPUTNIK 18)
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 18, 1962 at 03:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Kapustin Yar, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-2I →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Sputnik 18
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 188 km
- Periapsis
- 167 km
- Inclination
- 48.92°
- Orbital period
- 88.04 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-038A
- NORAD catalog №
- 367
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 17, 1963
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 17, 1963
- Time in service
- 364 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed