- Navigation satellite
- Military
- COSMOS 2464 (GLONASS)
- NORAD 37139
- 2010-041C
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Chad
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Kosmos-2466 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-2466, 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 Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is Kosmos-2466?
At 4:55:58 PM UTC Kosmos-2466 was over the Pacific Ocean (56° S, 163° W), 19,137 km up, moving at 3.95 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Kosmos-2466?
A navigation satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Sep 2, 2010.
Can I see Kosmos-2466?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-2466, 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
- OAO M. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems
- What it is
- Navigation satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 1.5 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
- 4:55 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:55 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 56° S, 163° W
- Altitude
- 19,137 km
- Speed
- 3.95 km/s (14,234 km/h)
- Course
- north-east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 63.9°
- Orbital period
- 675.7 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 2.13
- This orbit
- 19,040 to 19,220 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,310 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 2:30 AM, 14 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 2:30 AM, 14 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-2466, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Kosmos-2466 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-2466 shares its launch, 2010-041, with 7 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| COSMOS 2466 (GLONASS) | Navigation satellite |
| COSMOS 2465 (GLONASS) | Navigation satellite |
| SL-12 R/B(2) | Rocket body |
| SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR) | Rocket body |
| SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR) | Rocket body |
| SL-12 DEB | Debris |
| SL-12 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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 2:30 AM, 14 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 2464 (GLONASS)",
"OBJECT_ID": "2010-041C",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T02:30:06.818976",
"MEAN_MOTION": 2.13098334,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00353036,
"INCLINATION": 63.9151,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 185.3439,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 14.1044,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 177.7422,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 37139,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 12595,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 6.5e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}