Kosmos-2024

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/20026

  • Earth-watching satellite
  • Military
  • COSMOS 2024 (ETALON 2)
  • NORAD 20026
  • 1989-039C
  • Medium Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Kosmos-2024 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

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In view from you

Nobody watches Kosmos-2024 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-2024, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Kosmos-2024?

At 5:39:27 PM UTC Kosmos-2024 was over the Pacific Ocean (7.5° S, 176.3° E), 19,075 km up, moving at 3.96 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Kosmos-2024?

A satellite that watches the Earth in medium Earth orbit, in space since May 31, 1989.

Can I see Kosmos-2024?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-2024, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Operator
NPO Applied Mechanics
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 1.2 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, 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
5:39 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:39 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
7.5° S, 176.3° E
Altitude
19,075 km
Speed
3.96 km/s (14,260 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
64.8°
Orbital period
675.4 minutes
Orbits per day
2.13
This orbit
19,068 to 19,175 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 7,310 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 1:19 AM, 16 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 1:19 AM, 16 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-2024, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Kosmos-2024 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.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Launched with

Kosmos-2024 shares its launch, 1989-039, with 11 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
COSMOS 2022 (GLONASS)Navigation satellite
COSMOS 2023 (GLONASS)Navigation satellite
SL-12 R/B(2)Rocket body
SL-12 DEBDebris
SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR)Rocket body
SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR)Rocket body
SL-12 DEBDebris
SL-12 DEBDebris
SL-12 DEBDebris
SL-12 DEBDebris
SL-12 DEBDebris

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

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Kosmos-202419,068 to 19,175 km675 minutesabout 1.2 t1989
GOES-1935,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5 t2024
Meteosat-1235,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3.8 t2022
Meteosat-1135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 2 t2015
GOES-1635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.2 t2016
GOES-1735,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.2 t2018

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 1:19 AM, 16 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 2024 (ETALON 2)",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1989-039C",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T01:19:53.038272",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 2.13204648,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00209409,
  "INCLINATION": 64.8431,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 305.566,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 211.9914,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 174.2109,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 20026,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 29157,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -4.8e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}