- Military
- COSMOS 1241
- NORAD 12149
- 1981-006A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Kosmos-1241 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-1241, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Atlantic Ocean LIVE
Where is Kosmos-1241?
At 6:41:41 PM UTC Kosmos-1241 was over the Atlantic Ocean (52.9° N, 48.6° W), 1,000 km up, moving at 7.36 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Kosmos-1241?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jan 21, 1981.
Can I see Kosmos-1241?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-1241, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Space Defence Force, USSR Armed Forces
- State
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Built by
- Southern State Design Bureau
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 1 t
- Operating
- No: its regular operations have ended
- 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
- 6:41 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:41 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 52.9° N, 48.6° W
- Altitude
- 1,000 km
- Speed
- 7.36 km/s (26,482 km/h)
- Course
- south-east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 65.8°
- Orbital period
- 104.9 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 13.72
- This orbit
- 985 to 995 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,410 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 12:31 PM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 12:31 PM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-1241, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Kosmos-1241 has been reported publicly in the past thirty 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.
Launched with
Kosmos-1241 shares its launch, 1981-006, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
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 7, 2026, 12:31 PM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 1241",
"OBJECT_ID": "1981-006A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T12:31:34.641408",
"MEAN_MOTION": 13.72235486,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00071254,
"INCLINATION": 65.8214,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 139.0995,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 17.3669,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 12.5648,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 12149,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 29447,
"BSTAR": 0.000030221601,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -5.3e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}