Kosmos-2333

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/24297

  • Military
  • COSMOS 2333
  • NORAD 24297
  • 1996-051A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Kosmos-2333 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the United States of America

Orbit ends over Russia

In the Earth’s shadow since

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In view from you

Nobody watches Kosmos-2333 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-2333, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

  2. Close approach

    On Wednesday, Nov 4 at 1:14 AM UTC, a fragment of Fengyun 1C (NORAD 29796) was to pass within 880 m of Cosmos 2333 (NORAD 24297). The chance was about 1 in 3,000.

Summary

Over the Indian Ocean LIVE

Where is Kosmos-2333?

At 6:19:30 PM UTC Kosmos-2333 was over the Indian Ocean (21.2° S, 59.8° E), 862 km up, moving at 7.42 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Kosmos-2333?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Sep 4, 1996.

Can I see Kosmos-2333?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-2333, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoe Upravleniye
State
Russian Federation
Built by
Southern State Design Bureau
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
about 3.3 t
Operating
No: its regular operations have ended
Orbit class
Low Earth orbit

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
6:19 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:19 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
21.2° S, 59.8° E
Altitude
862 km
Speed
7.42 km/s (26,701 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 6:49 PM UTC
Inclination
70.9°
Orbital period
101.8 minutes
Orbits per day
14.14
This orbit
828 to 860 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,210 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 8:14 AM, 10 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:14 AM, 10 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-2333, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
1 reported. No close approach to Kosmos-2333 is reported for the next three 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-2333 shares its launch, 1996-051, with 8 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
SL-16 R/BRocket body
SL-16 DEBDebris
SL-16 DEBDebris
SL-16 DEBDebris
SL-16 DEBDebris
SL-16 DEBDebris
SL-16 DEBDebris
SL-16 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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 8:14 AM, 10 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 2333",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1996-051A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:14:34.738368",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.13852335,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0021747,
  "INCLINATION": 70.9052,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 31.2134,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 98.755,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 261.6035,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 24297,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 55667,
  "BSTAR": 0.00013841897,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000215,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}