Helios 1B - 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 25977U 99064A   13145.25743191  .00001088  00000-0  15404-3 0  9561
2 25977 098.2079 210.4048 0002218 074.8406 354.0920 14.79185021724372
Epoch (UTC): 25 May 2013 06:10:42
Eccentricity: 0.0002218
inclination: 98.2079°
perigee height: 630 km
apogee height: 633 km
right ascension of ascending node: 210.4048°
argument of perigee: 74.8406°
revolutions per day: 14.79185021
mean anomaly at epoch: 354.0920°
orbit number at epoch: 72437

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

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