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   13170.31251008  .00000267  00000-0  88107-4 0  4038
2 24837 086.3964 239.8647 0002337 111.6564 291.2577 14.34217045837844
Epoch (UTC): 19 June 2013 07:30:00
Eccentricity: 0.0002337
inclination: 86.3964°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 239.8647°
argument of perigee: 111.6564°
revolutions per day: 14.34217045
mean anomaly at epoch: 291.2577°
orbit number at epoch: 83784

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

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