Cosmos 1980 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 19650U 88102B   13168.54150112  .00000089  00000-0  69859-4 0   302
2 19650 070.9979 206.1077 0016167 249.1583 215.9813 14.15613820269276
Epoch (UTC): 17 June 2013 12:59:45
Eccentricity: 0.0016167
inclination: 70.9979°
perigee height: 828 km
apogee height: 852 km
right ascension of ascending node: 206.1077°
argument of perigee: 249.1583°
revolutions per day: 14.15613820
mean anomaly at epoch: 215.9813°
orbit number at epoch: 26927

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

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