Iridium 7 - 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 24793U 97020B   13140.31297907  .00000397  00000-0  13477-3 0  3550
2 24793 086.3997 221.1698 0002351 110.8793 314.3468 14.34212896839793
Epoch (UTC): 20 May 2013 07:30:41
Eccentricity: 0.0002351
inclination: 86.3997°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 221.1698°
argument of perigee: 110.8793°
revolutions per day: 14.34212896
mean anomaly at epoch: 314.3468°
orbit number at epoch: 83979

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

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