COBE 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 20323U 89089B   13142.67579457  .00000279  00000-0  82538-4 0  6596
2 20323 097.0776 305.5345 0074220 075.4601 345.9347 14.47299844239631
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 16:13:08
Eccentricity: 0.0074220
inclination: 97.0776°
perigee height: 681 km
apogee height: 787 km
right ascension of ascending node: 305.5345°
argument of perigee: 75.4601°
revolutions per day: 14.47299844
mean anomaly at epoch: 345.9347°
orbit number at epoch: 23963

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

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