Iridium 8 - 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 24792U 97020A   13169.26061602  .00000190  00000-0  60896-4 0  3903
2 24792 086.3965 208.8790 0002377 110.1766 249.9685 14.34219176843947
Epoch (UTC): 18 June 2013 06:15:17
Eccentricity: 0.0002377
inclination: 86.3965°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 208.8790°
argument of perigee: 110.1766°
revolutions per day: 14.34219176
mean anomaly at epoch: 249.9685°
orbit number at epoch: 84394

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

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