- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- COSMOS 2441
- NORAD 33272
- 2008-037A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Antarctica
Orbit ends over Antarctica
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Kosmos-2441 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-2441, 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 Canada LIVE
Where is Kosmos-2441?
At 6:20:34 PM UTC Kosmos-2441 was over Canada (45.1° N, 72.7° W), 731 km up, moving at 7.49 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Kosmos-2441?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Jul 26, 2008.
Can I see Kosmos-2441?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-2441, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- Russian Space Forces
- State
- Russian Federation
- Built by
- Central Specialized Design Bureau - Progress
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 7 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, 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
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 45.1° N, 72.7° W
- Altitude
- 731 km
- Speed
- 7.49 km/s (26,960 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:37 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 98.3°
- Orbital period
- 99.1 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.53
- This orbit
- 701 to 722 km
- In shadow
- 32 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,990 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 8:13 AM, 10 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:13 AM, 10 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-2441, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Kosmos-2441 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kosmos-2441 | 701 to 722 km | 99 minutes | about 7 t | 2008 |
| Landsat 9 | 702 to 704 km | 99 minutes | about 2.7 t | 2021 |
| Landsat 8 | 702 to 703 km | 99 minutes | about 2.8 t | 2013 |
| Sentinel-1C | 695 to 697 km | 99 minutes | about 2.2 t | 2024 |
| Sentinel-1D | 695 to 697 km | 99 minutes | about 2.2 t | 2025 |
| Sentinel-1A | 693 to 695 km | 99 minutes | about 2.2 t | 2014 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 8:13 AM, 10 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 2441",
"OBJECT_ID": "2008-037A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:13:11.342496",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.53321163,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00148536,
"INCLINATION": 98.3471,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 258.3916,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 256.2469,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 103.7074,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 33272,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 96898,
"BSTAR": 0.000079687625,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000285,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}