NORAD 40358
COSMOS 2502
Time
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Position
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Speed
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From your location
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- Local sidereal time
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 40358
- International designator
- 2014-086A
- Launch date
- Dec 25, 2014
- Launch site
- PLESETSK MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
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- Beacon
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- Mode
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Active transmitters from SatNOGS DB, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Your station
- Grid locator
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Live
- Azimuth
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- Elevation
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- Range
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- Range rate
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- Naked-eye visibility
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- Sub-satellite grid
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- Footprint diameter
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Upcoming passes
Next 48 h · your local timeUse your location to predict passes.
Mutual visibility
With another station · next 48 hUse your location to find mutual windows.
Transmitters
Nominal · add location for Doppler-
Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-02 12:30:59 UTC
- TLE age
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Radio data from SatNOGS DB and SatNOGS Network, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Its orbit in 3D
Goes round Earth once every 103 minutes, on an orbit tilted 67.2° from the equator, between 878 and 895 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About COSMOS 2502
COSMOS 2502 is a satellite from Russia (or the former Soviet Union), launched on Dec 25, 2014 from Plesetsk Missile and Space Complex.
It circles Earth every 103 minutes (14.0 times a day), between 898 and 905 km up, on an orbit tilted 67.2° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 67° north and south.
The map shows where it is right now; the pass list tells you when it next comes over your location.
Kosmos 2502 · Russian satellite
Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 22 days its lowest point went from 898 km to 898 km. Sudden rises are engine burns that lift the orbit; slow declines are drag from the thin upper atmosphere.
From Space-Track element sets, one point a day.