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   13139.41608396  .00000424  00000-0  14416-3 0  3141
2 24840 086.3976 252.8711 0002249 111.7278 315.5476 14.34219364833416
Epoch (UTC): 19 May 2013 09:59:09
Eccentricity: 0.0002249
inclination: 86.3976°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 252.8711°
argument of perigee: 111.7278°
revolutions per day: 14.34219364
mean anomaly at epoch: 315.5476°
orbit number at epoch: 83341

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

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