Iridium 60 - 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 25276U 98019E   13145.48514853  .00000296  00000-0  98691-4 0  3371
2 25276 086.3978 187.1773 0002371 108.2004 251.9450 14.34220478793401
Epoch (UTC): 25 May 2013 11:38:36
Eccentricity: 0.0002371
inclination: 86.3978°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 187.1773°
argument of perigee: 108.2004°
revolutions per day: 14.34220478
mean anomaly at epoch: 251.9450°
orbit number at epoch: 79340

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

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