Iridium 4 - 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 24796U 97020E   13170.24838672  .00000162  00000-0  50677-4 0  4250
2 24796 086.3962 208.3090 0002346 110.7461 006.0151 14.34379619844108
Epoch (UTC): 19 June 2013 05:57:40
Eccentricity: 0.0002346
inclination: 86.3962°
perigee height: 775 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 208.3090°
argument of perigee: 110.7461°
revolutions per day: 14.34379619
mean anomaly at epoch: 6.0151°
orbit number at epoch: 84410

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

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