Cosmos 968 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 10521U 77119B   13146.13124516  .00000176  00000-0  64115-4 0  7715
2 10521 074.0283 130.5099 0020447 146.4336 284.5273 14.40045078858720
Epoch (UTC): 26 May 2013 03:08:59
Eccentricity: 0.0020447
inclination: 74.0283°
perigee height: 744 km
apogee height: 773 km
right ascension of ascending node: 130.5099°
argument of perigee: 146.4336°
revolutions per day: 14.40045078
mean anomaly at epoch: 284.5273°
orbit number at epoch: 85872

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

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