SPOT 5 - 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 27421U 02021A   13141.18655963  .00000275  00000-0  14916-3 0  4683
2 27421 098.6109 210.6268 0001079 105.4314 349.9340 14.20075909572688
Epoch (UTC): 21 May 2013 04:28:38
Eccentricity: 0.0001079
inclination: 98.6109°
perigee height: 824 km
apogee height: 826 km
right ascension of ascending node: 210.6268°
argument of perigee: 105.4314°
revolutions per day: 14.20075909
mean anomaly at epoch: 349.9340°
orbit number at epoch: 57268

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

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