- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- COSMOS 1732
- NORAD 16593
- 1986-015A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Kosmos-1732 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-1732, 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 for the naked eye. What it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over Antarctica LIVE
Where is Kosmos-1732?
At 7:03:36 PM UTC Kosmos-1732 was over Antarctica (70.8° S, 14.7° E), 1,512 km up, moving at 7.12 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Kosmos-1732?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Feb 11, 1986.
Can I see Kosmos-1732?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-1732, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- Military-Topographic Service of the Soviet Army
- State
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Built by
- NPO Applied Mechanics
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 1.6 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, what it is for, 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
- 7:03 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 7:03 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 70.8° S, 14.7° E
- Altitude
- 1,512 km
- Speed
- 7.12 km/s (25,618 km/h)
- Course
- south-east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 73.6°
- Orbital period
- 116 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 12.41
- This orbit
- 1,479 to 1,521 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 3,030 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 4:07 AM, 14 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:07 AM, 14 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-1732, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Kosmos-1732 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-1732 shares its launch, 1986-015, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| SL-14 R/B | 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kosmos-1732 | 1,479 to 1,521 km | 116 minutes | about 1.6 t | 1986 |
| Sentinel-6MF | 1,332 to 1,344 km | 112 minutes | about 1.2 t | 2020 |
| Sentinel-6B | 1,332 to 1,344 km | 112 minutes | about 1.2 t | 2025 |
| Sentinel-5P | 826 to 828 km | 101 minutes | 820 kg | 2017 |
| Suomi NPP | 825 to 829 km | 101 minutes | about 2.1 t | 2011 |
| MetOp-SG A1 | 820 to 821 km | 101 minutes | about 4 t | 2025 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 4:07 AM, 14 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 1732",
"OBJECT_ID": "1986-015A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:07:27.211872",
"MEAN_MOTION": 12.41028891,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.0026906,
"INCLINATION": 73.6075,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 112.4032,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 221.0154,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 138.8867,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 16593,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 84568,
"BSTAR": 0.000002437327,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -1.7e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}