Iridium 62 - 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 25285U 98021A   13169.37721523  .00000232  00000-0  75631-4 0  3382
2 25285 086.3986 114.1279 0002421 101.5875 258.5592 14.34218829795789
Epoch (UTC): 18 June 2013 09:03:11
Eccentricity: 0.0002421
inclination: 86.3986°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 114.1279°
argument of perigee: 101.5875°
revolutions per day: 14.34218829
mean anomaly at epoch: 258.5592°
orbit number at epoch: 79578

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

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