- Military
- COSMOS 2512
- NORAD 41099
- 2015-071B
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Antarctica
Orbit ends over Antarctica
In view from you
Nobody watches Kosmos-2512 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-2512, 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
Summary
Over Brazil LIVE
Where is Kosmos-2512?
At 10:19:07 PM UTC Kosmos-2512 was over Brazil (2.4° S, 47.5° W), 644 km up, moving at 7.54 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Kosmos-2512?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 5, 2015.
Can I see Kosmos-2512?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-2512, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Proto-Vozdhusnoy Oborony
- State
- Russian Federation
- Built by
- AO Kontsern VKO Almaz-Antey
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 16 kg
- 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, 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
- 10:19 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 10:19 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 2.4° S, 47.5° W
- Altitude
- 644 km
- Speed
- 7.54 km/s (27,130 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 98.1°
- Orbital period
- 97.5 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.76
- This orbit
- 635 to 641 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,840 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:41 AM, 14 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:41 AM, 14 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-2512, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Kosmos-2512 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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:41 AM, 14 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 2512",
"OBJECT_ID": "2015-071B",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:41:23.930304",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.76320818,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00041743,
"INCLINATION": 98.0553,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 334.4523,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 273.8299,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 86.2433,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 41099,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 58441,
"BSTAR": 0.00051393289,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00003515,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}