Iridium 12 - 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 24837U 97030B   13144.42866687  .00000478  00000-0  16368-3 0  3690
2 24837 086.3976 250.6793 0002281 109.1869 295.3818 14.34222989834133
Epoch (UTC): 24 May 2013 10:17:16
Eccentricity: 0.0002281
inclination: 86.3976°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 250.6793°
argument of perigee: 109.1869°
revolutions per day: 14.34222989
mean anomaly at epoch: 295.3818°
orbit number at epoch: 83413

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

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