Kosmos 218 (OGCh No.17), a Soviet Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) warhead-bus test for the Strategic Rocket Forces. R-36-O (8K69) from Baikonur Site 162/36 lofted it on 25 April 1968 into a short-lived LEO; it decayed the same day.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 13th
- of 16 R-36O 8K69 flights
- Date and time
- 25 April 1968, 00:45 UTC
- Rocket
- R-36O 8K69
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 162/36, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1968-037
- Launches in 1968
- 40th of 128
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