Iridium 6 - 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 24794U 97020C   13141.27075896  .00000393  00000-0  13317-3 0  1566
2 24794 086.3994 220.7334 0002412 117.0878 243.0564 14.34221049839935
Epoch (UTC): 21 May 2013 06:29:53
Eccentricity: 0.0002412
inclination: 86.3994°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 220.7334°
argument of perigee: 117.0878°
revolutions per day: 14.34221049
mean anomaly at epoch: 243.0564°
orbit number at epoch: 83993

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

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