- Military
- COSMOS 2499
- NORAD 39765
- 2014-028E
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Kosmos-2499 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-2499, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
- Rendezvous
Kosmos-2499 came up beside Briz-KM No. 72521, May 23, 2014 to Nov 29, 2014, as public sources state. Its sources
Summary
Over the Indian Ocean LIVE
Where is Kosmos-2499?
At 6:14:29 PM UTC Kosmos-2499 was over the Indian Ocean (40° S, 19.7° E), 1,515 km up, moving at 7.03 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Kosmos-2499?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since May 23, 2014.
Can I see Kosmos-2499?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-2499, 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
- Yes
- 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
- 6:14 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:14 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 40° S, 19.7° E
- Altitude
- 1,515 km
- Speed
- 7.03 km/s (25,301 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 82.4°
- Orbital period
- 112.2 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 12.83
- This orbit
- 1,148 to 1,506 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 3,030 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:44 AM, 10 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:44 AM, 10 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-2499, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Kosmos-2499 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-2499 shares its launch, 2014-028, with 51 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
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, 7:44 AM, 10 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 2499",
"OBJECT_ID": "2014-028E",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:44:23.892864",
"MEAN_MOTION": 12.82907084,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.02320371,
"INCLINATION": 82.4483,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 155.1963,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 23.4239,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 337.7231,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 39765,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 58350,
"BSTAR": 0.00017827526,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 5.9e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}