Cosmos 2251 - 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 22675U 93036A   13143.78658654  .00000086  00000-0  41441-4 0  9840
2 22675 074.0415 046.4862 0024852 169.1282 296.4193 14.32226244 41352
Epoch (UTC): 23 May 2013 18:52:41
Eccentricity: 0.0024852
inclination: 74.0415°
perigee height: 766 km
apogee height: 802 km
right ascension of ascending node: 46.4862°
argument of perigee: 169.1282°
revolutions per day: 14.32226244
mean anomaly at epoch: 296.4193°
orbit number at epoch: 4135

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

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