Kosmos-2536

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/44424

  • Military
  • COSMOS 2538
  • NORAD 44424
  • 2019-039D
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Kosmos-2536 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Ross Sea

Orbit ends over the Ross Sea

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Kosmos-2536 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-2536, 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

  2. Rendezvous

    Kosmos-2536 came up beside Kosmos-2535, Jul 10, 2019 to Apr 12, 2021, as public sources state. Its sources

Summary

Over the Indian Ocean LIVE

Where is Kosmos-2536?

At 7:04:47 PM UTC Kosmos-2536 was over the Indian Ocean (42° S, 65.9° E), 501 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Kosmos-2536?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jul 10, 2019.

Can I see Kosmos-2536?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-2536, 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
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
7:04 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
7:04 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
42° S, 65.9° E
Altitude
501 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,432 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 7:37 PM UTC
Inclination
97.6°
Orbital period
94.6 minutes
Orbits per day
15.22
This orbit
470 to 524 km
In shadow
36 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,570 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:38 AM, 12 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:38 AM, 12 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-2536, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Kosmos-2536 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-2536 shares its launch, 2019-039, with 8 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
COSMOS 2535Satellite
VOLGA DEBDebris
COSMOS 2535 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2535 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2535 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2535 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2535 DEBDebris
COSMOS 2535 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, 6:38 AM, 12 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 2538",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2019-039D",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:38:33.384192",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.2205544,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00391891,
  "INCLINATION": 97.5794,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 32.7185,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 261.4948,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 98.1845,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 44424,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 40181,
  "BSTAR": 0.00037996525,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00008802,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}