Payload
COSMOS 1518
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COSMOS 1518 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on December 28, 1983 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 28, 1983 at 03:48 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- US-K 31
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 963 km
- Periapsis
- 74 km
- Inclination
- 62.3°
- Orbital period
- 95 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,238.85 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1983-126A
- NORAD catalog №
- 14587
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 11.7408 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 19, 1998
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 19, 1998
- Time in service
- 14.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed