ALOS - Orbit

View from above orbital plane
View from above orbital plane
View from above satellite
View from above satellite

Ground track
Ground track

The orbit data is extracted from the following two-line orbital elements,

1 28931U 06002A   13145.18759891  .00001043  00000-0  22463-3 0  1656
2 28931 098.0327 210.8353 0000820 044.6042 315.5240 14.60405863390689
Epoch (UTC): 25 May 2013 04:30:08
Eccentricity: 0.0000820
inclination: 98.0327°
perigee height: 691 km
apogee height: 692 km
right ascension of ascending node: 210.8353°
argument of perigee: 44.6042°
revolutions per day: 14.60405863
mean anomaly at epoch: 315.5240°
orbit number at epoch: 39068

The dashed part of the orbit path shows where the satellite is in the earth's shadow,  

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