Satellite · NORAD 16497 · COSPAR 1986-007A
RADUGA 18
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
10.39°
Period
1.0 d
1,457.3 min
Perigee
35,899km
Apogee
36,502km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 17 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- 2.4 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- RADUGA 18Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 17 Jan 1986
- COSPAR launch id
- 1986-007
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch · 5
- SL-12 PLAT16499DebrisDecayed
- SL-12 R/B(1)16498Rocket bodyDecayed
- SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR)16500Rocket bodyDecayed
- SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR)16501Rocket bodyDecayed
- SL-12 R/B(2)16870Rocket bodyInactive
Change log
History
No changes recorded since first ingestion on 11 Sept 2026 18:54 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.
Regulatory
UN registration
Transparency
Sources & provenance
No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.
Field provenance
No field-level provenance recorded.
Timeline
Events
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 16497
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1986-007A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JNQX94PW7DCMNAFPD49
- Canonical slug
- raduga-18-16497
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Unknown) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.