Space AtlasRADUGA 18
NORAD 16497 · Payload · In orbit since 1986
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1986-01-17 · Baikonur, Kazakhstan
- Country / operator
- CIS (Russia / CIS)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 1,965 kg
- Size
- 5.5 × 2.5 m · 9.5 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,901 × 36,501 km
- Inclination
- 10.5°
- Period
- 1457.0 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0070
- Orbit data
- Reconstructed from catalog orbit
Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).
Same launch
Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.