Cosmos 2242 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 22627U 93024B   13138.85860475  .00000380  00000-0  49977-4 0   202
2 22627 082.5248 043.4290 0024754 158.4228 269.2739 14.77336292 82040
Epoch (UTC): 18 May 2013 20:36:23
Eccentricity: 0.0024754
inclination: 82.5248°
perigee height: 620 km
apogee height: 655 km
right ascension of ascending node: 43.4290°
argument of perigee: 158.4228°
revolutions per day: 14.77336292
mean anomaly at epoch: 269.2739°
orbit number at epoch: 8204

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

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