Cosmos 304 Rocket - 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 04139U 69091B   13144.14504292  .00000623  00000-0  13169-3 0  5925
2 04139 074.0340 069.3629 0005108 188.3187 275.0991 14.61499362312129
Epoch (UTC): 24 May 2013 03:28:51
Eccentricity: 0.0005108
inclination: 74.0340°
perigee height: 685 km
apogee height: 692 km
right ascension of ascending node: 69.3629°
argument of perigee: 188.3187°
revolutions per day: 14.61499362
mean anomaly at epoch: 275.0991°
orbit number at epoch: 31212

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

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