- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- COSMOS 2344
- NORAD 24827
- 1997-028A
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Russia
Orbit ends over Russia
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Kosmos-2344 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-2344, 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 Atlantic Ocean LIVE
Where is Kosmos-2344?
At 7:05:08 PM UTC Kosmos-2344 was over the Atlantic Ocean (53.1° S, 52.9° W), 2,743 km up, moving at 6.37 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Kosmos-2344?
A satellite that watches the Earth in medium Earth orbit, in space since Jun 6, 1997.
Can I see Kosmos-2344?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-2344, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- NPO Lavochkin
- State
- Russian Federation
- Built by
- NPO Lavochkin
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 7.5 t
- Operating
- No: its regular operations have ended
- 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
- 7:05 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 7:05 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 53.1° S, 52.9° W
- Altitude
- 2,743 km
- Speed
- 6.37 km/s (22,943 km/h)
- Course
- north-east
- Light
- In sunlight until 7:41 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 63.3°
- Orbital period
- 130 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 11.08
- This orbit
- 1,190 to 3,051 km
- In shadow
- 21 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 4,060 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 6:32 AM, 12 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:32 AM, 12 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-2344, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Kosmos-2344 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-2344 shares its launch, 1997-028, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| SL-12 R/B(2) | Rocket body |
| SL-12 DEB | Debris |
| COSMOS 2344 DEB | Debris |
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-2344 | 1,190 to 3,051 km | 130 minutes | about 7.5 t | 1997 |
| 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, 6:32 AM, 12 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 2344",
"OBJECT_ID": "1997-028A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:32:26.155680",
"MEAN_MOTION": 11.0792948,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.10947261,
"INCLINATION": 63.2961,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 324.0183,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 71.7033,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 309.6268,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 24827,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 19052,
"BSTAR": -0.00098466748,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000139,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}