- Military
- COSMOS 1687
- NORAD 16103
- 1985-088A
- Highly elliptical orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over Australia
In view from you
Nobody watches Kosmos-1687 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-1687, 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-1687?
At 12:14:56 AM UTC Kosmos-1687 was over the Atlantic Ocean (54.4° N, 22.4° W), 11,420 km up, moving at 5.46 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Kosmos-1687?
A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Sep 30, 1985.
Can I see Kosmos-1687?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-1687, 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
- 12:14 AM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 12:14 AM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 54.4° N, 22.4° W
- Altitude
- 11,420 km
- Speed
- 5.46 km/s (19,656 km/h)
- Course
- north-east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 72.1°
- Orbital period
- 717.6 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 2.01
- This orbit
- 5,572 to 34,772 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 6,600 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 6, 2026, 2:26 PM, 2 days old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 6, 2026, 2:26 PM, 2 days old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-1687, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Kosmos-1687 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-1687 shares its launch, 1985-088, 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 6, 2026, 2:26 PM, 2 days old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 1687",
"OBJECT_ID": "1985-088A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-06T14:26:17.206656",
"MEAN_MOTION": 2.00669918,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.54990663,
"INCLINATION": 72.1383,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 2.9811,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 333.0513,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 87.9733,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 16103,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 30111,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000247,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}