Cosmos 2242 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 22627U 93024B   13142.19222853  .00000329  00000-0  42842-4 0   236
2 22627 082.5244 040.3378 0024982 147.9972 358.4061 14.77338617 82537
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 04:36:48
Eccentricity: 0.0024982
inclination: 82.5244°
perigee height: 620 km
apogee height: 655 km
right ascension of ascending node: 40.3378°
argument of perigee: 147.9972°
revolutions per day: 14.77338617
mean anomaly at epoch: 358.4061°
orbit number at epoch: 8253

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

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