Kosmos-2491

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/39497

  • Military
  • COSMOS 2491
  • NORAD 39497
  • 2013-076E
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Kosmos-2491 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over Canada

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

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In view from you

Nobody watches Kosmos-2491 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-2491, 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 the People's Republic of China LIVE

Where is Kosmos-2491?

At 6:24:58 PM UTC Kosmos-2491 was over the People's Republic of China (31.1° N, 118.4° E), 1,498 km up, moving at 7.12 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Kosmos-2491?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 25, 2013.

Can I see Kosmos-2491?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-2491, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Central Sci. Res. Inst. for Chemistry and Mechanics
State
Russian Federation
Built by
Central Sci. Res. Inst. for Chemistry and Mechanics
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
100 kg
Operating
Orbit class
Low Earth orbit

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, 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
6:24 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:24 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
31.1° N, 118.4° E
Altitude
1,498 km
Speed
7.12 km/s (25,621 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 6:34 PM UTC
Inclination
82.5°
Orbital period
115.8 minutes
Orbits per day
12.43
This orbit
1,478 to 1,500 km
In shadow
29 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 3,020 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 8:35 AM, 9 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:35 AM, 9 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-2491, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Kosmos-2491 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

Kosmos-2491 shares its launch, 2013-076, with 31 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
COSMOS 2488Communications satellite
COSMOS 2489Communications satellite
COSMOS 2490Communications satellite
BREEZE-KM R/BRocket body
COSMOS 2491 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2491 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2491 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2491 DEBDebris
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COSMOS 2491 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2491 DEB *Debris
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COSMOS 2491 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2491 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2491 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2491 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2491 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2491 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2491 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2491 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2491 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2491 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2491 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2491 DEBDebris
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COSMOS 2491 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2491 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2491 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2491 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2491 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, 8:35 AM, 9 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 2491",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2013-076E",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:35:37.064832",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 12.43499588,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00138452,
  "INCLINATION": 82.4844,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 78.294,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 134.536,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 225.6854,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 39497,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 58317,
  "BSTAR": -0.000046762106,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 3e-8,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}