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COSMOS 2528 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 43657)
Track COSMOS 2528 (NORAD catalog number 43657) live on the WatchSat interactive 3D globe above. Its position is propagated in real time from the latest CelesTrak two-line element set using the SGP4/SDP4 orbital model — the same math professional trackers run. It has been on orbit since 2018, launched on the 82nd orbital launch of that year (COSPAR designation 2018-082A). As of this element set it had completed roughly 40,140 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.40 km/s, COSMOS 2528 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 907 × 918 km, completing one revolution every 103.1 minutes — about 14.0 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0008). Inclined 67.1° to the equator, it overflies every latitude up to about 67° north and south. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 238.4°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane westward about 2.43° per day.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~907 km × 918 km |
| Inclination | 67.15° |
| Orbital period | 103.1 min (13.97 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00080 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2018-082A |
| NORAD catalog number | 43657 |
This page's orbital elements come from the CelesTrak catalog of 2026-09-08. The live 3D view above fetches its own current CelesTrak data when the page opens, through an edge cache that refreshes roughly every 30 minutes.
About the Other Active Satellites group
COSMOS 2528 is one of 4,471 active satellites in WatchSat's general catalog — the broad population of Earth-observation, communications, science, amateur-radio and technology spacecraft outside the giant broadband constellations. Browse all other active satellites live in 3D.
Can you see COSMOS 2528 from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, COSMOS 2528 is visible only around dawn and dusk, when your sky is dark but the satellite is still sunlit — and whether you can spot it depends on its size and reflectivity. See pass predictions for your location for when it is above your horizon and sunlit.
Related satellites
Nearest catalog neighbors of COSMOS 2528 in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- HAIYANG-2B (NORAD 43655)
- CFOSAT (NORAD 43662)
- AEHF-4 (USA 288) (NORAD 43651)
- YAOGAN-32 B (NORAD 43643)
- YAOGAN-32 A (NORAD 43642)
- GOSAT 2 (IBUKI 1) (NORAD 43672)
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