Helios 1B 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 25979U 99064C   13145.83746489  .00002257  00000-0  25408-3 0  5368
2 25979 098.1665 271.4127 0008798 128.0222 232.1788 14.87692952728968
Epoch (UTC): 25 May 2013 20:05:56
Eccentricity: 0.0008798
inclination: 98.1665°
perigee height: 599 km
apogee height: 611 km
right ascension of ascending node: 271.4127°
argument of perigee: 128.0222°
revolutions per day: 14.87692952
mean anomaly at epoch: 232.1788°
orbit number at epoch: 72896

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

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