Iridium 42 - 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 25077U 97077A   13142.43192415  .00000299  00000-0  99872-4 0  3321
2 25077 086.3963 283.3753 0002310 108.5083 251.6364 14.34212135809077
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 10:21:58
Eccentricity: 0.0002310
inclination: 86.3963°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 283.3753°
argument of perigee: 108.5083°
revolutions per day: 14.34212135
mean anomaly at epoch: 251.6364°
orbit number at epoch: 80907

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

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