- Military
- COSMOS 2342
- NORAD 24800
- 1997-022A
- Highly elliptical orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Kazakhstan
Orbit ends over Canada
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Kosmos-2342 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-2342, 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 the Indian Ocean LIVE
Where is Kosmos-2342?
At 12:41:46 AM UTC Kosmos-2342 was over the Indian Ocean (48.9° S, 150.7° E), 37,404 km up, moving at 1.81 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Kosmos-2342?
A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since May 14, 1997.
Can I see Kosmos-2342?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-2342, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Proto-Vozdhusnoy Oborony
- State
- Russian Federation
- Built by
- NPO Lavochkin
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 1.3 t
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical 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
- 12:41 AM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 12:41 AM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 48.9° S, 150.7° E
- Altitude
- 37,404 km
- Speed
- 1.81 km/s (6,498 km/h)
- Course
- north-west
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:28 AM UTC
- Inclination
- 67.6°
- Orbital period
- 721.6 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 2
- This orbit
- 3,130 to 37,413 km
- In shadow
- 29 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,980 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 4:52 AM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 4:52 AM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-2342, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Kosmos-2342 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 8, 2026, 2:43 PM, 9 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-2342 shares its launch, 1997-022, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| SL-6 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 7, 2026, 4:52 AM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 2342",
"OBJECT_ID": "1997-022A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T04:52:07.204224",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.99544811,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.64320744,
"INCLINATION": 67.6226,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 237.5564,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 123.805,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 314.3493,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 24800,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 21526,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.0000064,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}