- Military
- COSMOS 654
- NORAD 7297
- 1974-032A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches Kosmos-654 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-654, 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 Philippine Sea LIVE
Where is Kosmos-654?
At 6:43:59 PM UTC Kosmos-654 was over the Philippine Sea (14.7° N, 125° E), 999 km up, moving at 7.34 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is Kosmos-654?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since May 17, 1974.
Can I see Kosmos-654?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-654, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Soviet Navy
- State
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Built by
- TsNII Kometa
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 1.2 t
- Operating
- 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
- 6:43 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:43 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 14.7° N, 125° E
- Altitude
- 999 km
- Speed
- 7.34 km/s (26,417 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 6:49 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 64.9°
- Orbital period
- 104.4 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 13.8
- This orbit
- 907 to 1,021 km
- In shadow
- 30 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,410 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 4:04 AM, 14 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:04 AM, 14 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-654, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Kosmos-654 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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 4:04 AM, 14 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 654",
"OBJECT_ID": "1974-032A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:04:22.118016",
"MEAN_MOTION": 13.7962017,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00774574,
"INCLINATION": 64.9482,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 282.5446,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 288.7093,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 82.0468,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 7297,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 64484,
"BSTAR": 0.000010815735,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -7.7e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}