JAS-2 - 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 24278U 96046B   13142.17246623  .00000044  00000-0  83002-4 0  1223
2 24278 098.5574 204.2159 0349890 231.4190 140.5682 13.53000488827790
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 04:08:21
Eccentricity: 0.0349890
inclination: 98.5574°
perigee height: 801 km
apogee height: 1321 km
right ascension of ascending node: 204.2159°
argument of perigee: 231.4190°
revolutions per day: 13.53000488
mean anomaly at epoch: 140.5682°
orbit number at epoch: 82779

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

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