Iridium 23 - 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 24906U 97043D   13145.46044973  .00000147  00000-0  45464-4 0  3921
2 24906 086.3968 155.5568 0002379 106.7672 042.3331 14.34216275825161
Epoch (UTC): 25 May 2013 11:03:02
Eccentricity: 0.0002379
inclination: 86.3968°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 155.5568°
argument of perigee: 106.7672°
revolutions per day: 14.34216275
mean anomaly at epoch: 42.3331°
orbit number at epoch: 82516

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

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