Iridium 30 - 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 24949U 97051F   13142.16796417  .00000284  00000-0  94307-4 0  3896
2 24949 086.3980 188.7101 0002377 111.7091 248.4358 14.34217493821260
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 04:01:52
Eccentricity: 0.0002377
inclination: 86.3980°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 188.7101°
argument of perigee: 111.7091°
revolutions per day: 14.34217493
mean anomaly at epoch: 248.4358°
orbit number at epoch: 82126

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

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