Payload
INTERCOSMOS 8
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INTERCOSMOS 8 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on November 30, 1972 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 30, 1972 at 09:49 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos 11K63 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- DS-U1-IK 2
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 179 km
- Periapsis
- 127 km
- Inclination
- 70.95°
- Orbital period
- 87.55 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 336.97 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-094A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6291
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 2, 1973
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 2, 1973
- Time in service
- 92 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed