- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- COSMOS 2593
- NORAD 65269
- 2025-182C
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Canada
Orbit ends over Canada
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Kosmos-2593 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-2593, 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 Antarctica LIVE
Where is Kosmos-2593?
At 5:37:15 PM UTC Kosmos-2593 was over Antarctica (69.3° S, 90.9° E), 311 km up, moving at 7.72 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Kosmos-2593?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Aug 21, 2025.
Can I see Kosmos-2593?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-2593, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- Russian Ministry of Defense
- State
- Russian Federation
- Built by
- Joint Stock Corp. VNIIEM
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 520 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, 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
- 5:37 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:37 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 69.3° S, 90.9° E
- Altitude
- 311 km
- Speed
- 7.72 km/s (27,788 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:27 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 96.6°
- Orbital period
- 90.2 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.96
- This orbit
- 280 to 283 km
- In shadow
- 36 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,130 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 3:02 AM, 14 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 3:02 AM, 14 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-2593, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Kosmos-2593 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-2593 shares its launch, 2025-182, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| COSMOS 2591 | Earth-watching satellite |
| COSMOS 2592 | Earth-watching satellite |
| COSMOS 2594 | Earth-watching 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kosmos-2593 | 280 to 283 km | 90 minutes | 520 kg | 2025 |
| PAZ | 507 to 510 km | 95 minutes | about 1.4 t | 2018 |
| WorldView-3 | 612 to 615 km | 97 minutes | about 2.8 t | 2014 |
| SAOCOM 1A | 622 to 624 km | 97 minutes | about 3 t | 2018 |
| ALOS-2 | 630 to 632 km | 97 minutes | about 2.1 t | 2014 |
| SMAP | 681 to 683 km | 98 minutes | 944 kg | 2015 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 3:02 AM, 14 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 2593",
"OBJECT_ID": "2025-182C",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T03:02:13.903584",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.96411325,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00020517,
"INCLINATION": 96.5837,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 240.1421,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 68.3179,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 291.8318,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 65269,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 7065,
"BSTAR": 0.00026152054,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00108076,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0.000006311208
}