Cosmos 1726 - 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 16495U 86006A   13144.00668682  .00005357  00000-0  31202-3 0   952
2 16495 082.4770 108.5534 0015710 327.0006 097.8595 15.11715523490954
Epoch (UTC): 24 May 2013 00:09:37
Eccentricity: 0.0015710
inclination: 82.4770°
perigee height: 520 km
apogee height: 542 km
right ascension of ascending node: 108.5534°
argument of perigee: 327.0006°
revolutions per day: 15.11715523
mean anomaly at epoch: 97.8595°
orbit number at epoch: 49095

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

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