- Military
- COSMOS 1547
- NORAD 14884
- 1984-033A
- Highly elliptical orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Kosmos-1547 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-1547, 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 Greenland LIVE
Where is Kosmos-1547?
At 12:43:01 AM UTC Kosmos-1547 was over Greenland (67° N, 47.7° W), 34,161 km up, moving at 2.16 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Kosmos-1547?
A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Apr 4, 1984.
Can I see Kosmos-1547?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-1547, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Proto-Vozdhusnoy Oborony
- State
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Built by
- NPO Lavochkin
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 1.3 t
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical 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
- 12:43 AM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 12:43 AM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 67° N, 47.7° W
- Altitude
- 34,161 km
- Speed
- 2.16 km/s (7,776 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 72.6°
- Orbital period
- 718.2 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 2.01
- This orbit
- 5,028 to 35,343 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,910 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 7:15 AM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 7:15 AM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-1547, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Kosmos-1547 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 8, 2026, 2:43 PM, 9 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-1547 shares its launch, 1984-033, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| SL-6 R/B(2) | Rocket body |
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, 7:15 AM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 1547",
"OBJECT_ID": "1984-033A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T07:15:41.528736",
"MEAN_MOTION": 2.00512843,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.57061711,
"INCLINATION": 72.5852,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 323.7729,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 242.5607,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 49.0782,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 14884,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 25219,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000465,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}