Earth orbit
Progress-18
VLF experiment.
Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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The mission
VLF experiment. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 1983-106; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 20 October 1983, 09:59:05 UTC
- Launch location
- NIIP-5, Baykonur, Kazakstan
- Launch vehicle
- Soyuz-U
- Orbit
- Lower low Earth orbit (inclined)
Flight data
Launch intelligence
A Soviet Space Program Soyuz-U rocket launched the Progress-18 mission on Thursday, October 20, 1983 at 9:59 AM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Soviet Space Program
- Vehicle
- Soyuz-U
- COSPAR launch ID
- 1983-106
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Not published
- Target T-0
- Oct 20, 1983, 09:59 UTC
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Oct 20 1983
- Pad and location
- LC-31, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 16 November 1983
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Hardware
Spacecraft
Progress-18
VLF experiment.
- GCAT ID
- S14422
- Manufacturer
- NPO Energiya
- Launch mass
- 7,250 kg
- Dimensions
- 7.9 m long · 2.7 m diameter · 7.9 m span
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