Payload
INTERCOSMOS 18
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INTERCOSMOS 18 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on October 24, 1978 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 24, 1978 at 07:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- AUOS-Z-M-IK 1
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 150 km
- Periapsis
- 125 km
- Inclination
- 82.9°
- Orbital period
- 87.24 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 545.09 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1978-099A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11082
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 11.1531 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 17, 1981
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 17, 1981
- Time in service
- 2.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed