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   13138.17340031  .00000067  00000-0  53475-4 0  8799
2 25634 098.8098 204.0354 0010743 171.4694 205.7405 14.19072328736982
Epoch (UTC): 18 May 2013 04:09:41
Eccentricity: 0.0010743
inclination: 98.8098°
perigee height: 821 km
apogee height: 836 km
right ascension of ascending node: 204.0354°
argument of perigee: 171.4694°
revolutions per day: 14.19072328
mean anomaly at epoch: 205.7405°
orbit number at epoch: 73698

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

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