Cosmos 1953 - 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 19210U 88050A   13140.77889352  .00002122  00000-0  16957-3 0  1048
2 19210 082.5219 031.5710 0013700 282.8181 077.1512 14.99715846354245
Epoch (UTC): 20 May 2013 18:41:36
Eccentricity: 0.0013700
inclination: 82.5219°
perigee height: 558 km
apogee height: 577 km
right ascension of ascending node: 31.5710°
argument of perigee: 282.8181°
revolutions per day: 14.99715846
mean anomaly at epoch: 77.1512°
orbit number at epoch: 35424

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

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