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COSMOS 2609 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 68754)
Track COSMOS 2609 (NORAD catalog number 68754) 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 B of 2026's 83rd orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2026-083B). It went up together with 6 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 2,158 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.60 km/s, COSMOS 2609 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 547 × 565 km, completing one revolution every 95.6 minutes — about 15.1 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0013). Its 98.1° 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 43.6°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane eastward about 1.06° per day.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~547 km × 565 km |
| Inclination | 98.13° |
| Orbital period | 95.6 min (15.06 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00127 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2026-083B |
| NORAD catalog number | 68754 |
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 2609 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 2609 from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, COSMOS 2609 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 2609 in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- SL-4 R/B (NORAD 68753)
- COSMOS 2610 (NORAD 68758)
- COSMOS 2611 (NORAD 68759)
- DAQI-2 (NORAD 68760)
- COSMOS 2612 (NORAD 68762)
- COSMOS 2613 (NORAD 68763)
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