Rassvet Satellite Tracker

Of the 32 Rassvet production satellites launched since 23 March 2026, 22 are in their working orbit at about 510 km, six are climbing towards it, one is holding at a lower altitude, two are descending and one has re-entered the atmosphere. Every satellite links to its own live page. The board and the table are worked out again whenever new orbital data arrives, usually several times a day.

Altitude is the satellite's mean height above the Earth's equatorial radius, with its lowest and highest points in brackets. The change is over the last 14 days. The small chart shows its altitude since launch, with the working orbit as a dashed line.

How we decide the status. The working orbit is the altitude where most Rassvet satellites have settled, found from the data rather than assumed, currently about 510 km. A satellite is in the working orbit when it is at or close to that altitude; climbing when it has clearly gained height over the last 14 days; descending when it has clearly lost height; and holding lower or holding higher when it is steady below or above the working orbit. Re-entered satellites link to their record in the Orbital Register.

Every day since the first production launch on 23 March 2026: how many Rassvet satellites were in orbit, and how many had reached the working orbit. The first satellite reached it on 10 June 2026, 79 days after launch.

Counts the production satellites only. A satellite counts as in the working orbit on a given day when its altitude that day was at or close to today's working orbit.

Rassvet, Russian for "dawn", is a satellite internet constellation in low Earth orbit. It is being built by Bureau 1440 (Byuro 1440), a Russian satellite company, which flew its first test satellites in 2023 and began launching production satellites in batches of 16 in March 2026. Like other broadband constellations, it is designed to deliver internet access with much shorter delays than satellites in geostationary orbit.

Each production satellite is released into a low orbit at around 300 km and climbs to its working orbit with its own electric thrusters, a climb that takes weeks to months. The satellites are linked to one another by lasers, so data can be passed across the network in space before it comes down to the ground.

Rassvet the constellation is not the same spacecraft as Rassvet the space station module: that is a Russian module of the International Space Station, launched in 2010. See the ISS modules guide for that one.

In July 2026 Bureau 1440 published a plan for 156 Rassvet satellites in orbit by the end of 2026 and 292 by 2027, the year it set for the start of partial service, growing to 610 by 2028 and 900 by 2035. It aims to cover all of Russia by 2030. 31 production satellites are in orbit today, against the 156 planned for the end of 2026.

Bars to scale. The plan figures are Bureau 1440's own; the count in orbit is our live count of production satellites.

Every launch that has carried Rassvet satellites, newest first, with how many of each launch's satellites are still in orbit. Each launch links to its record in our launch database.

Before the production satellites, Bureau 1440 flew two sets of three test satellites: Rassvet-1 in June 2023 and Rassvet-2 in May 2024, both as passengers on Soyuz rockets carrying other payloads. The Rassvet-2 satellites are in the public satellite catalogue under generic names; the Rassvet-1 satellites are not listed in it, so they cannot be tracked.

Rassvet is one of several broadband mega-constellations now being deployed in low Earth orbit. The counts below are live, from the same tracking data as each constellation's own tracker.

Starlink: satellites in service. Other constellations: production satellites in orbit. For how these systems work and why there are so many of them, see mega-constellations explained and how satellite internet works.

Rassvet satellites fly in orbits inclined at about 82 degrees to the equator, close to polar, so over a day they pass above almost every inhabited place on Earth. Use the overhead checker under the live map to see whether one is above you now, or our satellite pass predictions for full pass times wherever you are. Like most satellites, they can only be seen shortly after dusk or before dawn, when they are lit by the Sun against a dark sky. If you spot a moving point of light and are not sure what it is, our sky identifier can help.

Journalists, researchers and students are welcome to cite this page. The figures change as new orbital data arrives, so the access date records the version you used.

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