- Military
- COSMOS 2552
- NORAD 49503
- 2021-113A
- Highly elliptical orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Southern Ocean
Orbit ends over the Southern Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Kosmos-2552 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-2552, 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-2552?
At 5:35:33 PM UTC Kosmos-2552 was over the Atlantic Ocean (62.7° N, 20.1° W), 37,141 km up, moving at 1.82 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Kosmos-2552?
A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Nov 25, 2021.
Can I see Kosmos-2552?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-2552, 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
- 5:35 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:35 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 62.7° N, 20.1° W
- Altitude
- 37,141 km
- Speed
- 1.82 km/s (6,556 km/h)
- Course
- south-east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 62.8°
- Orbital period
- 718 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 2.01
- This orbit
- 3,211 to 37,154 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,970 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 12:13 AM, 17 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 12:13 AM, 17 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-2552, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Kosmos-2552 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-2552 shares its launch, 2021-113, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| FREGAT R/B | Rocket 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 8, 2026, 12:13 AM, 17 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 2552",
"OBJECT_ID": "2021-113A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T00:13:28.988256",
"MEAN_MOTION": 2.00554857,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.63897031,
"INCLINATION": 62.8165,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 194.5163,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 272.3071,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 21.1895,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 49503,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 3628,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000159,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}