Iridium 43 - 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 25039U 97069A   13138.10363146  .00000954  00000-0  33376-3 0  3289
2 25039 086.3938 285.1781 0002268 097.7243 314.1812 14.34205929812594
Epoch (UTC): 18 May 2013 02:29:13
Eccentricity: 0.0002268
inclination: 86.3938°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 285.1781°
argument of perigee: 97.7243°
revolutions per day: 14.34205929
mean anomaly at epoch: 314.1812°
orbit number at epoch: 81259

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

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