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   13170.31139338  .00000255  00000-0  84085-4 0  4474
2 24869 086.3974 271.5694 0002225 110.8757 301.2731 14.34215072834812
Epoch (UTC): 19 June 2013 07:28:24
Eccentricity: 0.0002225
inclination: 86.3974°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 271.5694°
argument of perigee: 110.8757°
revolutions per day: 14.34215072
mean anomaly at epoch: 301.2731°
orbit number at epoch: 83481

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

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