Kompass

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  • KOMPASS
  • NORAD 27002
  • 2001-056B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Kompass is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the North Sea

Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean

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In view from you

Nobody watches Kompass 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 Kompass, 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

Summary

Over Mauritania LIVE

Where is Kompass?

At 6:24:59 PM UTC Kompass was over Mauritania (24.1° N, 9.5° W), 988 km up, moving at 7.37 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Kompass?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 10, 2001.

Can I see Kompass?

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

General

Operator
Inst. of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionos. and RW Prop.
State
Russian Federation
Built by
Makeev Design Bureau
Launched
Mass
65 kg
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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
6:24 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:24 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
24.1° N, 9.5° W
Altitude
988 km
Speed
7.37 km/s (26,518 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
99.8°
Orbital period
105.1 minutes
Orbits per day
13.71
This orbit
980 to 1,009 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 2,390 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:14 AM, 12 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:14 AM, 12 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Kompass 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.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Launched with

Kompass shares its launch, 2001-056, with 13 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
METEOR 3MEarth-watching satellite
BADR BEarth-watching satellite
MAROC TUBSATEarth-watching satellite
REFLECTORSatellite
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
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, 6:14 AM, 12 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "KOMPASS",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2001-056B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:14:15.648576",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.70653744,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00200128,
  "INCLINATION": 99.8019,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 129.7739,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 124.0549,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 48.7503,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 27002,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 24597,
  "BSTAR": 0.000062312127,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 9e-8,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}