CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1963-0051
COSMOS 8 (SPUTNIK 18)
COSMOS 8 (SPUTNIK 18) (NORAD 367) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 17 August 1963, after 11 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
367
International designator
1962-038A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
18 Aug 1962Kapustin Yar
Re-entered (UTC)
17 Aug 1963UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
11 months364 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
48.9°N to 48.9°SFinal inclination 48.9°
Mass
235 kg
Operator
OKB-586
Built by
OKB-586
Bus
DS
Programme
DS-K-8
Where it came down
Latitude band its orbit allowedExact position not recorded
No position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit, inclined at 48.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 48.9°N and 48.9°S.
Life in orbit
11 monthsCOSMOS 8 (SPUTNIK 18)’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1962-038
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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