Iridium 10 - 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 24839U 97030D   13169.32315257  .00000274  00000-0  90920-4 0  4007
2 24839 086.3965 240.2666 0002359 111.6053 291.7760 14.34217073837717
Epoch (UTC): 18 June 2013 07:45:20
Eccentricity: 0.0002359
inclination: 86.3965°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 240.2666°
argument of perigee: 111.6053°
revolutions per day: 14.34217073
mean anomaly at epoch: 291.7760°
orbit number at epoch: 83771

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

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