- Military
- COSMOS 2566
- NORAD 54383
- 2022-163C
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Indian Ocean
Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Kosmos-2566 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-2566, 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-2566?
At 5:39:48 PM UTC Kosmos-2566 was over the Atlantic Ocean (4.4° N, 24.7° W), 909 km up, moving at 7.4 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Kosmos-2566?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 30, 2022.
Can I see Kosmos-2566?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-2566, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Aerospace Defence Forces
- State
- Russian Federation
- Built by
- Central Specialized Design Bureau - Progress
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 10 kg
- 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, 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
- 5:39 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:39 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 4.4° N, 24.7° W
- Altitude
- 909 km
- Speed
- 7.4 km/s (26,622 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 67.1°
- Orbital period
- 103 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 13.98
- This orbit
- 891 to 909 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,280 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 4:48 AM, 12 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:48 AM, 12 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-2566, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Kosmos-2566 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-2566 shares its launch, 2022-163, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| COSMOS 2565 | Satellite |
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, 4:48 AM, 12 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 2566",
"OBJECT_ID": "2022-163C",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:48:22.247136",
"MEAN_MOTION": 13.9772877,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.0012211,
"INCLINATION": 67.1398,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 111.382,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 304.0688,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 55.9237,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 54383,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 20069,
"BSTAR": 0.00005398,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 1e-8,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}