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   13138.44877292  .00000390  00000-0  13213-3 0  3398
2 24872 086.3953 285.0837 0002375 110.8967 249.2483 14.34217641830243
Epoch (UTC): 18 May 2013 10:46:13
Eccentricity: 0.0002375
inclination: 86.3953°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 285.0837°
argument of perigee: 110.8967°
revolutions per day: 14.34217641
mean anomaly at epoch: 249.2483°
orbit number at epoch: 83024

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

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