- Navigation satellite
- Military
- COSMOS 2179 (GLONASS)
- NORAD 21855
- 1992-005C
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Kosmos-2179 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-2179, 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 far too high and too faint for the naked eye. What you notice of it is a position fix, and the card above says whether it is above your horizon to give you one.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Indian Ocean LIVE
Where is Kosmos-2179?
At 6:45:57 PM UTC Kosmos-2179 was over the Indian Ocean (51.3° S, 60° E), 19,124 km up, moving at 3.96 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Kosmos-2179?
A navigation satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Jan 29, 1992.
Can I see Kosmos-2179?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-2179, and nothing here estimates one; receivers on the ground use its signals instead, whenever it is above their horizon.
General
- Operator
- Voenno-Vosdushniye Sili
- State
- Russian Federation
- Built by
- PO Polyot
- What it is
- Navigation satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 1.3 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
- 6:45 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:45 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 51.3° S, 60° E
- Altitude
- 19,124 km
- Speed
- 3.96 km/s (14,242 km/h)
- Course
- north-east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 65°
- Orbital period
- 675.7 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 2.13
- This orbit
- 19,091 to 19,168 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,310 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 6, 2026, 2:26 PM, 2 days old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 6, 2026, 2:26 PM, 2 days old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-2179, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Kosmos-2179 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-2179 shares its launch, 1992-005, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| COSMOS 2177 (GLONASS) | Navigation satellite |
| COSMOS 2178 (GLONASS) | Navigation satellite |
| 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 6, 2026, 2:26 PM, 2 days old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 2179 (GLONASS)",
"OBJECT_ID": "1992-005C",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-06T14:26:46.878144",
"MEAN_MOTION": 2.13102649,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00150057,
"INCLINATION": 64.9828,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 65.1608,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 250.4775,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 177.5321,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 21855,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 27038,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -4.8e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}