Tiangong 1 - 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 37820U 11053A   13138.89616898  .00055056  00000-0  34492-3 0  8637
2 37820 042.7789 178.6273 0003516 131.7776 224.8715 15.75951619 94012
Epoch (UTC): 18 May 2013 21:30:29
Eccentricity: 0.0003516
inclination: 42.7789°
perigee height: 339 km
apogee height: 344 km
right ascension of ascending node: 178.6273°
argument of perigee: 131.7776°
revolutions per day: 15.75951619
mean anomaly at epoch: 224.8715°
orbit number at epoch: 9401

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

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