Tiangong 1 - 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 37820U 11053A   13144.17028003  .00066898  00000-0  38205-3 0  8823
2 37820 042.7781 146.4332 0005168 245.5317 208.6015 15.77962509 94850
Epoch (UTC): 24 May 2013 04:05:12
Eccentricity: 0.0005168
inclination: 42.7781°
perigee height: 333 km
apogee height: 339 km
right ascension of ascending node: 146.4332°
argument of perigee: 245.5317°
revolutions per day: 15.77962509
mean anomaly at epoch: 208.6015°
orbit number at epoch: 9485

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

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