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   13144.88285231  .00000171  00000-0  79607-4 0  7543
2 20439 098.4698 085.4524 0010241 222.4793 169.9423 14.32173768218905
Epoch (UTC): 24 May 2013 21:11:18
Eccentricity: 0.0010241
inclination: 98.4698°
perigee height: 777 km
apogee height: 792 km
right ascension of ascending node: 85.4524°
argument of perigee: 222.4793°
revolutions per day: 14.32173768
mean anomaly at epoch: 169.9423°
orbit number at epoch: 21890

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

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