Payload
SOYUZ-TMA 18M
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 40885
SOYUZ-TMA 18M is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on September 2, 2015 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- September 2, 2015 at 04:37 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz FG →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Mission
- Soyuz TMA-18M
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 407 km
- Periapsis
- 401 km
- Inclination
- 51.64°
- Orbital period
- 92.64 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 7,212 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2.7 × 7.9 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2015-043A
- NORAD catalog №
- 40885
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 7.515 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 2, 2016
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 2, 2016
- Time in service
- 182 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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