NOAA 11 - 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 19531U 88089A   13138.41452920 -.00000013  00000-0  15574-4 0  3619
2 19531 098.7111 222.1481 0010665 351.9021 145.4002 14.15015278271917
Epoch (UTC): 18 May 2013 09:56:55
Eccentricity: 0.0010665
inclination: 98.7111°
perigee height: 834 km
apogee height: 850 km
right ascension of ascending node: 222.1481°
argument of perigee: 351.9021°
revolutions per day: 14.15015278
mean anomaly at epoch: 145.4002°
orbit number at epoch: 27191

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

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