Payload
COSMOS 818
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 8851
COSMOS 818 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on May 18, 1976 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- May 18, 1976 at 10:59 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos 11K63 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- DS-P1-Yu 78
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 147 km
- Periapsis
- 134 km
- Inclination
- 71.03°
- Orbital period
- 87.29 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 322.1 kg
- Dimensions
- 1.8 × 1.2 × 1.8 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1976-044A
- NORAD catalog №
- 8851
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 4.606 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 7, 1977
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 7, 1977
- Time in service
- 293 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed