HST - 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 20580U 90037B   13167.74008509  .00000891  00000-0  51223-4 0  2634
2 20580 028.4696 275.7628 0003325 350.3355 136.2094 15.03692199 69630
Epoch (UTC): 16 June 2013 17:45:43
Eccentricity: 0.0003325
inclination: 28.4696°
perigee height: 553 km
apogee height: 558 km
right ascension of ascending node: 275.7628°
argument of perigee: 350.3355°
revolutions per day: 15.03692199
mean anomaly at epoch: 136.2094°
orbit number at epoch: 6963

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

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