Iridium 56 - 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 25170U 98010B   13169.29522786  .00000267  00000-0  88287-4 0  8816
2 25170 086.3972 240.5960 0002303 110.9313 279.2434 14.34216558802510
Epoch (UTC): 18 June 2013 07:05:07
Eccentricity: 0.0002303
inclination: 86.3972°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 240.5960°
argument of perigee: 110.9313°
revolutions per day: 14.34216558
mean anomaly at epoch: 279.2434°
orbit number at epoch: 80251

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

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