- COSMOS 382
- NORAD 4786
- 1970-103A
- Medium 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-382 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-382, 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 the Atlantic Ocean LIVE
Where is Kosmos-382?
At 7:37:47 PM UTC Kosmos-382 was over the Atlantic Ocean (41.5° S, 9.2° E), 5,207 km up, moving at 5.46 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Kosmos-382?
A satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Dec 2, 1970.
Can I see Kosmos-382?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-382, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Central KB for Experimental Machine Building
- State
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Built by
- Central KB for Experimental Machine Building
- Launched
- Mass
- about 2.8 t
- Operating
- No: its regular operations have ended
- Orbit class
- Medium Earth orbit
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 7:37 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 7:37 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 41.5° S, 9.2° E
- Altitude
- 5,207 km
- Speed
- 5.46 km/s (19,652 km/h)
- Course
- south-east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 55.9°
- Orbital period
- 171 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 8.42
- This orbit
- 2,430 to 5,225 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 5,250 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 10:56 PM, 20 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 10:56 PM, 20 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-382, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Kosmos-382 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-382 shares its launch, 1970-103, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR) | Rocket body |
| SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR) | Rocket body |
| COSMOS 382 DEB | Debris |
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, 10:56 PM, 20 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 382",
"OBJECT_ID": "1970-103A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T22:56:51.486144",
"MEAN_MOTION": 8.42041895,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.1369341,
"INCLINATION": 55.8552,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 135.8782,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 63.2126,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 73.7116,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 4786,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 72067,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -2.6e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}