Iridium 81 - 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 25468U 98051B   13142.46997703  .00000399  00000-0  13546-3 0  2462
2 25468 086.3959 283.1577 0002256 103.2639 256.8808 14.34212656769743
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 11:16:46
Eccentricity: 0.0002256
inclination: 86.3959°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 283.1577°
argument of perigee: 103.2639°
revolutions per day: 14.34212656
mean anomaly at epoch: 256.8808°
orbit number at epoch: 76974

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

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