Iridium 32 - 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 24945U 97051B   13138.19750654  .00000407  00000-0  13842-3 0  3377
2 24945 086.3987 190.2943 0002310 109.6078 250.5367 14.34215546820713
Epoch (UTC): 18 May 2013 04:44:24
Eccentricity: 0.0002310
inclination: 86.3987°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 190.2943°
argument of perigee: 109.6078°
revolutions per day: 14.34215546
mean anomaly at epoch: 250.5367°
orbit number at epoch: 82071

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

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