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   13144.78587963  .00067149  00000-0  38205-3 0  8847
2 37820 042.7774 142.6666 0005619 251.0976 104.4549 15.78041378 94942
Epoch (UTC): 24 May 2013 18:51:40
Eccentricity: 0.0005619
inclination: 42.7774°
perigee height: 332 km
apogee height: 340 km
right ascension of ascending node: 142.6666°
argument of perigee: 251.0976°
revolutions per day: 15.78041378
mean anomaly at epoch: 104.4549°
orbit number at epoch: 9494

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

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