Cosmos 540 Rocket - 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 06324U 72104B   13142.84187770  .00000186  00000-0  63751-4 0  9768
2 06324 074.0774 339.2464 0008723 145.7680 315.8079 14.42673425121171
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 20:12:18
Eccentricity: 0.0008723
inclination: 74.0774°
perigee height: 743 km
apogee height: 756 km
right ascension of ascending node: 339.2464°
argument of perigee: 145.7680°
revolutions per day: 14.42673425
mean anomaly at epoch: 315.8079°
orbit number at epoch: 12117

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

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