ARGOS - 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 25634U 99008A   13144.81915964  .00000057  00000-0  48561-4 0  8845
2 25634 098.8088 210.6425 0011013 153.2625 315.8395 14.19074112737925
Epoch (UTC): 24 May 2013 19:39:35
Eccentricity: 0.0011013
inclination: 98.8088°
perigee height: 820 km
apogee height: 836 km
right ascension of ascending node: 210.6425°
argument of perigee: 153.2625°
revolutions per day: 14.19074112
mean anomaly at epoch: 315.8395°
orbit number at epoch: 73792

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

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