ARGOS - 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 25634U 99008A   13143.76917002  .00000060  00000-0  49786-4 0  8836
2 25634 098.8091 209.5988 0010962 156.0897 351.9770 14.19073758737770
Epoch (UTC): 23 May 2013 18:27:36
Eccentricity: 0.0010962
inclination: 98.8091°
perigee height: 820 km
apogee height: 836 km
right ascension of ascending node: 209.5988°
argument of perigee: 156.0897°
revolutions per day: 14.19073758
mean anomaly at epoch: 351.9770°
orbit number at epoch: 73777

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

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