Cosmos 1242 - 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 12154U 81008A   13139.36323718  .00032613  00000-0  53748-3 0  3269
2 12154 081.1587 231.3725 0004945 223.3612 166.8068 15.52136202773457
Epoch (UTC): 19 May 2013 08:43:03
Eccentricity: 0.0004945
inclination: 81.1587°
perigee height: 407 km
apogee height: 414 km
right ascension of ascending node: 231.3725°
argument of perigee: 223.3612°
revolutions per day: 15.52136202
mean anomaly at epoch: 166.8068°
orbit number at epoch: 77345

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

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