Iridium 57 - 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 25273U 98019B   13142.18699751  .00000289  00000-0  96089-4 0  2890
2 25273 086.3987 188.7889 0002371 109.7664 250.3788 14.34221810792936
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 04:29:16
Eccentricity: 0.0002371
inclination: 86.3987°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 188.7889°
argument of perigee: 109.7664°
revolutions per day: 14.34221810
mean anomaly at epoch: 250.3788°
orbit number at epoch: 79293

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

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