- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- COSMOS 2553
- NORAD 51511
- 2022-011A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Southern Ocean
Orbit ends over Antarctica
In view from you
Nobody watches Kosmos-2553 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-2553, 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 for the naked eye. What it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Indian Ocean LIVE
Where is Kosmos-2553?
At 4:59:48 PM UTC Kosmos-2553 was over the Indian Ocean (32.6° S, 44.4° E), 2,006 km up, moving at 6.9 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Kosmos-2553?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Feb 5, 2022.
Can I see Kosmos-2553?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-2553, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- Aerospace Defence Forces
- State
- Russian Federation
- Built by
- OAO M. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 2 t
- Operating
- Yes
- Orbit class
- Low Earth orbit
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, what it is for, 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
- 4:59 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:59 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 32.6° S, 44.4° E
- Altitude
- 2,006 km
- Speed
- 6.9 km/s (24,829 km/h)
- Course
- south-east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 67.1°
- Orbital period
- 127.1 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 11.33
- This orbit
- 1,991 to 1,998 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 3,500 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 5:08 AM, 11 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 5:08 AM, 11 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-2553, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Kosmos-2553 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kosmos-2553 | 1,991 to 1,998 km | 127 minutes | about 2 t | 2022 |
| Sentinel-6MF | 1,332 to 1,344 km | 112 minutes | about 1.2 t | 2020 |
| Sentinel-6B | 1,332 to 1,344 km | 112 minutes | about 1.2 t | 2025 |
| Sentinel-5P | 826 to 828 km | 101 minutes | 820 kg | 2017 |
| Suomi NPP | 825 to 829 km | 101 minutes | about 2.1 t | 2011 |
| MetOp-SG A1 | 820 to 821 km | 101 minutes | about 4 t | 2025 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 5:08 AM, 11 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 2553",
"OBJECT_ID": "2022-011A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T05:08:03.225408",
"MEAN_MOTION": 11.32845209,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.0004067,
"INCLINATION": 67.0891,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 152.3707,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 270.2823,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 89.7654,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 51511,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 19675,
"BSTAR": 0.00065206,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -1.1e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}