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   13142.51551032  .00001071  00000-0  23062-3 0  1575
2 28931 098.0328 208.2434 0001006 043.3820 316.7462 14.60400318390294
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 12:22:20
Eccentricity: 0.0001006
inclination: 98.0328°
perigee height: 691 km
apogee height: 692 km
right ascension of ascending node: 208.2434°
argument of perigee: 43.3820°
revolutions per day: 14.60400318
mean anomaly at epoch: 316.7462°
orbit number at epoch: 39029

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

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