USA 186 - 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 28888U 05042A   13139.84385993 0.00035000  00000-0  33450-3 0    00
2 28888  97.8624 203.2111 0518301 176.3891 183.6107 14.81108748    03
Epoch (UTC): 19 May 2013 20:15:09
Eccentricity: 0.0518301
inclination: 97.8624°
perigee height: 263 km
apogee height: 989 km
right ascension of ascending node: 203.2111°
argument of perigee: 176.3891°
revolutions per day: 14.81108748
mean anomaly at epoch: 183.6107°
orbit number at epoch: 0

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

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