Iridium 82 - 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 25467U 98051A   13145.47638092  .00000431  00000-0  14689-3 0  4309
2 25467 086.3956 282.2025 0002718 103.5729 256.5769 14.34214108773958
Epoch (UTC): 25 May 2013 11:25:59
Eccentricity: 0.0002718
inclination: 86.3956°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 282.2025°
argument of perigee: 103.5729°
revolutions per day: 14.34214108
mean anomaly at epoch: 256.5769°
orbit number at epoch: 77395

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

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