Payload
RADUGA 8
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
RADUGA 8 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on March 18, 1981 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 18, 1981 at 04:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/DM →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Raduga 8
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,085 km
- Periapsis
- 35,410 km
- Inclination
- 6.3°
- Orbital period
- 1434.1 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,947.47 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1981-027A
- NORAD catalog №
- 12351
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 1.2619 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational