- Military
- COSMOS 1894
- NORAD 18443
- 1987-091A
- Inclined geosynchronous
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Brazil
Orbit ends over Brazil
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Kosmos-1894 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-1894, 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 Brazil LIVE
Where is Kosmos-1894?
At 5:37:05 PM UTC Kosmos-1894 was over Brazil (9.3° S, 48.5° W), 35,796 km up, moving at 3.08 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Kosmos-1894?
A satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Oct 28, 1987.
Can I see Kosmos-1894?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-1894, 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
- No: its regular operations have ended
- Orbit class
- Inclined geosynchronous
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
- 5:37 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:37 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 9.3° S, 48.5° W
- Altitude
- 35,796 km
- Speed
- 3.08 km/s (11,070 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight until 2:37 AM UTC
- Inclination
- 10.6°
- Orbital period
- 1,437 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 1
- This orbit
- 35,788 to 35,824 km
- In shadow
- 49 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,940 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 2:33 AM, 15 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 2:33 AM, 15 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-1894, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Kosmos-1894 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-1894 shares its launch, 1987-091, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| SL-12 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 8, 2026, 2:33 AM, 15 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 1894",
"OBJECT_ID": "1987-091A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T02:33:58.525632",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.00205915,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00041692,
"INCLINATION": 10.554,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 324.6676,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 351.4631,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 80.9503,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 18443,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 12226,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000305,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}