Kosmos 8 (DS-K-8 No.1 / Sputnik 18), the sole Soviet DS-K-8 Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik technology satellite for radar-calibration and research, launched on a Kosmos-2I (63S1) from Kapustin Yar on 18 August 1962. It remained in low Earth orbit until decay on 17 August 1963.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 235 kg
- Flight
- 8th
- of 38 Kosmos-2I flights
- Date and time
- 18 August 1962, 15:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-2I
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Mayak-2, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1962-038
- Launches in 1962
- 45th of 81
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