Iridium 13 - 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 24840U 97030E   13142.41645722  .00000400  00000-0  13559-3 0  3173
2 24840 086.3978 251.6173 0002278 111.9986 316.9926 14.34221461833840
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 09:59:41
Eccentricity: 0.0002278
inclination: 86.3978°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 251.6173°
argument of perigee: 111.9986°
revolutions per day: 14.34221461
mean anomaly at epoch: 316.9926°
orbit number at epoch: 83384

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

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