Kosmos-723

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/7718

  • Military
  • COSMOS 723
  • NORAD 7718
  • 1975-024A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Kosmos-723 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Kosmos-723 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-723, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Southern Ocean LIVE

Where is Kosmos-723?

At 6:43:30 PM UTC Kosmos-723 was over the Southern Ocean (64.7° S, 150.8° W), 918 km up, moving at 7.41 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Kosmos-723?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Apr 2, 1975.

Can I see Kosmos-723?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Kosmos-723, 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
64.7° S, 150.8° W
Altitude
918 km
Speed
7.41 km/s (26,680 km/h)
Course
east
Light
In sunlight until 7:33 PM UTC
Inclination
64.7°
Orbital period
103.6 minutes
Orbits per day
13.9
This orbit
884 to 973 km
In shadow
32 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,290 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 3:37 AM, 15 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 3:37 AM, 15 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Kosmos-723, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Kosmos-723 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.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 3:37 AM, 15 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "COSMOS 723",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1975-024A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T03:37:11.731872",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.89670135,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00605572,
  "INCLINATION": 64.7166,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 275.249,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 304.6478,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 54.8883,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 7718,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 61878,
  "BSTAR": 0.000015691965,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -7.3e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}