Space AtlasCOSMOS 618
NORAD 6986 · Payload · In orbit since 1973
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1973-12-19 · Plesetsk, Russia
- Country / operator
- CIS (Russia / CIS)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 60 kg
- Size
- 0.8 × 0.8 m
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 1,444 × 1,486 km
- Inclination
- 74.0°
- Period
- 115.1 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0027
- 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.