Kosmos-952

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/10358

  • Military
  • COSMOS 952
  • NORAD 10358
  • 1977-088A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Kosmos-952 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Australia

Orbit ends over the Great Australian Bight

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Kosmos-952 go over, but a receiver still asks whether it is above the horizon. Say where you are and this card answers.

Your position is rounded to about a kilometre and sent only to the Orbinauts API, to find the pass.

No brightness has been published for Kosmos-952, so it is not a naked-eye satellite and no city page carries pass times for it. Nothing here estimates one.

Seeing it

There is nothing to go outside for: it is too faint to see with the naked eye from anywhere on Earth.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

  2. Close approach

    On Sunday, Oct 25 at 10:29 PM UTC, an unidentified object (NORAD 87029) was to pass within 990 m of Cosmos 952 (NORAD 10358). The chance was about 1 in 8,000.

Summary

Over the Atlantic Ocean LIVE

Where is Kosmos-952?

At 6:43:39 PM UTC Kosmos-952 was over the Atlantic Ocean (11° N, 34° W), 989 km up, moving at 7.34 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Kosmos-952?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Sep 16, 1977.

Can I see Kosmos-952?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-952, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Soviet Navy
State
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Built by
TsNII Kometa
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
about 1.2 t
Operating
Orbit class
Low Earth orbit

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, that a defence organisation flies it, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
6:43 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:43 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
11° N, 34° W
Altitude
989 km
Speed
7.34 km/s (26,424 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
64.9°
Orbital period
104.1 minutes
Orbits per day
13.84
This orbit
908 to 990 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 2,390 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 4:02 AM, 14 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:02 AM, 14 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-952, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
1 reported. No close approach to Kosmos-952 is reported for the next three days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 8, 2026, 1:11 PM, 3 hours old. Only approaches serious enough to be reported publicly are listed: within three days and, for two bodies near the Earth, closer than a kilometre with a chance of a collision above 1 in 10,000, the level at which NASA moves the ISS.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Launched with

Kosmos-952 shares its launch, 1977-088, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
COSMOS 952 DEBDebris

Read from the international designators of the US catalogue: the year and the launch number every piece of one launch shares. A body that has come down is no longer listed.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 4:02 AM, 14 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 952",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1977-088A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:02:24.020448",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.83749984,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00559638,
  "INCLINATION": 64.9336,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 121.6671,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 322.1356,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 37.5773,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 10358,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 48310,
  "BSTAR": 0.000029366738,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -5.6e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}