Cosmos 1726 - 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 16495U 86006A   13142.88029088  .00004146  00000-0  24117-3 0   948
2 16495 082.4764 109.6623 0015901 331.2256 087.4831 15.11707136490784
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 21:07:37
Eccentricity: 0.0015901
inclination: 82.4764°
perigee height: 520 km
apogee height: 542 km
right ascension of ascending node: 109.6623°
argument of perigee: 331.2256°
revolutions per day: 15.11707136
mean anomaly at epoch: 87.4831°
orbit number at epoch: 49078

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

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