Kosmos-2546

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/45608

  • Military
  • COSMOS 2546
  • NORAD 45608
  • 2020-031A
  • Highly elliptical orbit

Current orbit

Where Kosmos-2546 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Southern Ocean

Orbit ends over the Southern Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

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In view from you

Nobody watches Kosmos-2546 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-2546, 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

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Summary

Over the Atlantic Ocean LIVE

Where is Kosmos-2546?

At 12:55:33 PM UTC Kosmos-2546 was over the Atlantic Ocean (5.1° N, 17.6° W), 7,118 km up, moving at 6.64 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Kosmos-2546?

A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since May 22, 2020.

Can I see Kosmos-2546?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-2546, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Aerospace Defence Forces
State
Russian Federation
Built by
RKK Energiya
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
about 2.6 t
Operating
Yes
Orbit class
Highly elliptical 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
12:55 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
12:55 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
5.1° N, 17.6° W
Altitude
7,118 km
Speed
6.64 km/s (23,897 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 1:50 PM UTC
Inclination
63.2°
Orbital period
717.7 minutes
Orbits per day
2.01
This orbit
1,205 to 39,144 km
In shadow
45 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 5,810 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 2:12 PM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 2:12 PM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-2546, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Kosmos-2546 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 9, 2026, 5:39 AM, 2 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-2546 shares its launch, 2020-031, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
FREGAT R/BRocket body

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 7, 2026, 2:12 PM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 2546",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2020-031A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T14:12:05.034816",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 2.00638743,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.71441806,
  "INCLINATION": 63.1738,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 47.8118,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 267.0047,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 16.8868,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 45608,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 4734,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000508,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}