Iridium 18 - 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 24872U 97034D   13169.42603617  .00000269  00000-0  88827-4 0  3768
2 24872 086.3977 272.1333 0002406 107.9679 252.1779 14.34215234834688
Epoch (UTC): 18 June 2013 10:13:29
Eccentricity: 0.0002406
inclination: 86.3977°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 272.1333°
argument of perigee: 107.9679°
revolutions per day: 14.34215234
mean anomaly at epoch: 252.1779°
orbit number at epoch: 83468

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

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