- INTERCOSMOS 24
- NORAD 20261
- 1989-080A
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Arctic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Arctic Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Interkosmos-24 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 Interkosmos-24, 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 Algeria LIVE
Where is Interkosmos-24?
At 5:35:49 PM UTC Interkosmos-24 was over Algeria (33.9° N, 1.3° W), 797 km up, moving at 7.76 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Interkosmos-24?
A satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Sep 28, 1989.
Can I see Interkosmos-24?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Interkosmos-24, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Interkosmos
- State
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Built by
- Southern State Design Bureau
- Launched
- Mass
- about 1.4 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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 5:35 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:35 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 33.9° N, 1.3° W
- Altitude
- 797 km
- Speed
- 7.76 km/s (27,918 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight until 5:47 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 82.6°
- Orbital period
- 114.3 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 12.6
- This orbit
- 495 to 2,348 km
- In shadow
- 11 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,100 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 5:59 AM, 11 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 5:59 AM, 11 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Interkosmos-24, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Interkosmos-24 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
Interkosmos-24 shares its launch, 1989-080, with 4 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
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, 5:59 AM, 11 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "INTERCOSMOS 24",
"OBJECT_ID": "1989-080A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T05:59:53.237472",
"MEAN_MOTION": 12.59773721,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.11879787,
"INCLINATION": 82.6028,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 305.875,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 87.5003,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 286.1243,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 20261,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 69746,
"BSTAR": 0.00017524221,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000629,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}