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   13144.54655138  .00000184  00000-0  66533-4 0  7701
2 10521 074.0282 133.4394 0020437 149.9847 348.9794 14.40044614858495
Epoch (UTC): 24 May 2013 13:07:02
Eccentricity: 0.0020437
inclination: 74.0282°
perigee height: 744 km
apogee height: 773 km
right ascension of ascending node: 133.4394°
argument of perigee: 149.9847°
revolutions per day: 14.40044614
mean anomaly at epoch: 348.9794°
orbit number at epoch: 85849

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

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