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   13139.30629863  .00000083  00000-0  61041-4 0  8806
2 25634 098.8097 205.1617 0010773 168.2045 233.3511 14.19072736737149
Epoch (UTC): 19 May 2013 07:21:04
Eccentricity: 0.0010773
inclination: 98.8097°
perigee height: 821 km
apogee height: 836 km
right ascension of ascending node: 205.1617°
argument of perigee: 168.2045°
revolutions per day: 14.19072736
mean anomaly at epoch: 233.3511°
orbit number at epoch: 73714

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

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