- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- COSMOS 2088
- NORAD 20720
- 1990-066A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Canada
Orbit ends over Canada
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Kosmos-2088 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-2088, 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 the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is Kosmos-2088?
At 5:36:37 PM UTC Kosmos-2088 was over the Pacific Ocean (25.3° S, 123° W), 1,508 km up, moving at 7.11 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Kosmos-2088?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Jul 30, 1990.
Can I see Kosmos-2088?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-2088, 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
- 5:36 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:36 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 25.3° S, 123° W
- Altitude
- 1,508 km
- Speed
- 7.11 km/s (25,603 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:24 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 73.6°
- Orbital period
- 116.1 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 12.41
- This orbit
- 1,482 to 1,521 km
- In shadow
- 31 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 3,030 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 5:05 AM, 12 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 5:05 AM, 12 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-2088, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Kosmos-2088 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-2088 shares its launch, 1990-066, 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-2088 | 1,482 to 1,521 km | 116 minutes | about 1.6 t | 1990 |
| 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, 5:05 AM, 12 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 2088",
"OBJECT_ID": "1990-066A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T05:05:41.739360",
"MEAN_MOTION": 12.4078473,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00248437,
"INCLINATION": 73.5988,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 197.7451,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 53.572,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 111.9138,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 20720,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 64301,
"BSTAR": 0.00018958653,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 8e-8,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}