Oscar 16 - 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 20439U 90005D   13143.83517562  .00000180  00000-0  82947-4 0  7532
2 20439 098.4699 084.4292 0010174 225.6723 168.2123 14.32173233218759
Epoch (UTC): 23 May 2013 20:02:39
Eccentricity: 0.0010174
inclination: 98.4699°
perigee height: 777 km
apogee height: 792 km
right ascension of ascending node: 84.4292°
argument of perigee: 225.6723°
revolutions per day: 14.32173233
mean anomaly at epoch: 168.2123°
orbit number at epoch: 21875

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

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