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   13140.29400156  .00000412  00000-0  14004-3 0  1553
2 24794 086.3995 221.1411 0002394 117.1548 242.9892 14.34220446839797
Epoch (UTC): 20 May 2013 07:03:21
Eccentricity: 0.0002394
inclination: 86.3995°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 221.1411°
argument of perigee: 117.1548°
revolutions per day: 14.34220446
mean anomaly at epoch: 242.9892°
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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