Cosmos 2279 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 23093U 94024B   13143.10830335  .00000041  00000-0  25643-4 0  6908
2 23093 082.9457 139.5984 0009791 200.6319 159.4444 13.77576871426825
Epoch (UTC): 23 May 2013 02:35:57
Eccentricity: 0.0009791
inclination: 82.9457°
perigee height: 965 km
apogee height: 979 km
right ascension of ascending node: 139.5984°
argument of perigee: 200.6319°
revolutions per day: 13.77576871
mean anomaly at epoch: 159.4444°
orbit number at epoch: 42682

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

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