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   13170.80652390  .00071040  00000-0  38205-3 0  9909
2 37820 042.7790 343.3367 0007074 331.5771 159.8740 15.79257960 99064
Epoch (UTC): 19 June 2013 19:21:23
Eccentricity: 0.0007074
inclination: 42.7790°
perigee height: 328 km
apogee height: 337 km
right ascension of ascending node: 343.3367°
argument of perigee: 331.5771°
revolutions per day: 15.79257960
mean anomaly at epoch: 159.8740°
orbit number at epoch: 9906

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

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