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   13140.36376817  .00000118  00000-0  59790-4 0  7501
2 20439 098.4697 081.0386 0010008 236.8604 269.3366 14.32172108218259
Epoch (UTC): 20 May 2013 08:43:49
Eccentricity: 0.0010008
inclination: 98.4697°
perigee height: 777 km
apogee height: 791 km
right ascension of ascending node: 81.0386°
argument of perigee: 236.8604°
revolutions per day: 14.32172108
mean anomaly at epoch: 269.3366°
orbit number at epoch: 21825

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

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