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   13169.43237920  .00000240  00000-0  78682-4 0  3648
2 25077 086.3977 272.0880 0002217 110.4032 249.7402 14.34214949812946
Epoch (UTC): 18 June 2013 10:22:37
Eccentricity: 0.0002217
inclination: 86.3977°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 272.0880°
argument of perigee: 110.4032°
revolutions per day: 14.34214949
mean anomaly at epoch: 249.7402°
orbit number at epoch: 81294

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

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