- Navigation satellite
- Military
- COSMOS 2394 (GLONASS)
- NORAD 27617
- 2002-060A
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Southern Ocean
Orbit ends over the Southern Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Kosmos-2394 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-2394, 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 Mediterranean Sea LIVE
Where is Kosmos-2394?
At 4:55:47 PM UTC Kosmos-2394 was over the Mediterranean Sea (32.9° N, 26.2° E), 19,135 km up, moving at 3.95 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Kosmos-2394?
A navigation satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Dec 25, 2002.
Can I see Kosmos-2394?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-2394, and nothing here estimates one; receivers on the ground use its signals instead, whenever it is above their horizon.
General
- Operator
- Russian Space Forces
- State
- Russian Federation
- Built by
- PO Polyot
- What it is
- Navigation satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 1.5 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
- 4:55 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:55 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 32.9° N, 26.2° E
- Altitude
- 19,135 km
- Speed
- 3.95 km/s (14,231 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 65.3°
- Orbital period
- 675.7 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 2.13
- This orbit
- 19,123 to 19,136 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,310 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 4:31 AM, 12 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:31 AM, 12 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-2394, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Kosmos-2394 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-2394 shares its launch, 2002-060, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| COSMOS 2396 (GLONASS) | Navigation satellite |
| COSMOS 2395 (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 8, 2026, 4:31 AM, 12 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 2394 (GLONASS)",
"OBJECT_ID": "2002-060A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:31:12.278784",
"MEAN_MOTION": 2.13102586,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00025031,
"INCLINATION": 65.3409,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 310.7723,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 283.8831,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 76.1052,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 27617,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 18579,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -4.7e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}