Iridium 40 - 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 25041U 97069C   13145.43831987  .00000123  00000-0  36868-4 0  3579
2 25041 086.3962 282.0130 0002219 108.0870 252.0568 14.34213696813663
Epoch (UTC): 25 May 2013 10:31:10
Eccentricity: 0.0002219
inclination: 86.3962°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 282.0130°
argument of perigee: 108.0870°
revolutions per day: 14.34213696
mean anomaly at epoch: 252.0568°
orbit number at epoch: 81366

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

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