ALOS - 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 28931U 06002A   13169.37307679  .00000391  00000-0  89867-4 0  2384
2 28931 098.0303 234.2932 0000852 142.3674 217.7592 14.60437803394213
Epoch (UTC): 18 June 2013 08:57:13
Eccentricity: 0.0000852
inclination: 98.0303°
perigee height: 691 km
apogee height: 692 km
right ascension of ascending node: 234.2932°
argument of perigee: 142.3674°
revolutions per day: 14.60437803
mean anomaly at epoch: 217.7592°
orbit number at epoch: 39421

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

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