Iridium 15 - 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 24869U 97034A   13144.49518495  .00000407  00000-0  13817-3 0  4146
2 24869 086.3961 282.3615 0002246 107.3453 295.4016 14.34213435831119
Epoch (UTC): 24 May 2013 11:53:03
Eccentricity: 0.0002246
inclination: 86.3961°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 282.3615°
argument of perigee: 107.3453°
revolutions per day: 14.34213435
mean anomaly at epoch: 295.4016°
orbit number at epoch: 83111

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

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