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COSMOS 2608 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 67682)
Track COSMOS 2608 (NORAD catalog number 67682) 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 is object J of 2026's 23rd orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2026-023J). It went up together with 8 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 3,243 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.64 km/s, COSMOS 2608 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 479 × 507 km, completing one revolution every 94.3 minutes — about 15.3 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0020). Its 96.6° retrograde, near-polar inclination is characteristic of a Sun-synchronous orbit — the type Earth-imaging and weather satellites use to revisit each spot at the same local solar time. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 304.5°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane eastward about 0.89° per day.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~479 km × 507 km |
| Inclination | 96.62° |
| Orbital period | 94.3 min (15.27 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00203 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-06 |
| COSPAR designation | 2026-023J |
| NORAD catalog number | 67682 |
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 2608 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 2608 from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, COSMOS 2608 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 2608 in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- COSMOS 2607 (NORAD 67681)
- KNACKSAT-2 (NORAD 67683)
- COSMOS 2606 (NORAD 67680)
- COSMOS 2605 (NORAD 67679)
- GXIBA-1 (NORAD 67685)
- COSMOS 2604 (NORAD 67678)
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