HST - 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 20580U 90037B   13140.12524322  .00002303  00000-0  15221-3 0  2438
2 20580 028.4698 096.7916 0003505 052.3619 056.0570 15.03604758 65475
Epoch (UTC): 20 May 2013 03:00:21
Eccentricity: 0.0003505
inclination: 28.4698°
perigee height: 553 km
apogee height: 558 km
right ascension of ascending node: 96.7916°
argument of perigee: 52.3619°
revolutions per day: 15.03604758
mean anomaly at epoch: 56.0570°
orbit number at epoch: 6547

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

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