- Military
- COSMOS 1556 (GLONASS)
- NORAD 14979
- 1984-047C
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Kosmos-1556 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-1556, 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 Indian Ocean LIVE
Where is Kosmos-1556?
At 11:32:21 AM UTC Kosmos-1556 was over the Indian Ocean (32° S, 87.4° E), 19,172 km up, moving at 3.95 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Kosmos-1556?
A satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since May 19, 1984.
Can I see Kosmos-1556?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-1556, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Main Space Forces Directorate
- State
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Built by
- Omsk Aviation Plant
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 1.3 t
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Medium 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
- 11:32 AM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 11:32 AM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 32° S, 87.4° E
- Altitude
- 19,172 km
- Speed
- 3.95 km/s (14,216 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 66.4°
- Orbital period
- 676.3 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 2.13
- This orbit
- 19,118 to 19,171 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,310 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 6, 2026, 11:18 AM, 3 days old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 6, 2026, 11:18 AM, 3 days old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-1556, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Kosmos-1556 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 9, 2026, 5:39 AM, 2 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-1556 shares its launch, 1984-047, with 5 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| COSMOS 1554 (GLONASS) | Navigation satellite |
| COSMOS 1555 (GLONASS) | Navigation satellite |
| SL-12 R/B(2) | Rocket body |
| SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR) | Rocket body |
| SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR) | 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 6, 2026, 11:18 AM, 3 days old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 1556 (GLONASS)",
"OBJECT_ID": "1984-047C",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-06T11:18:13.879008",
"MEAN_MOTION": 2.1291254,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.0010435,
"INCLINATION": 66.3546,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 325.1122,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 195.6008,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 342.0302,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 14979,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 33012,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -4e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}