Iridium 77 - 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 25471U 98051E   13140.44492513  .00000306  00000-0  10222-3 0  4234
2 25471 086.3949 283.9459 0002198 120.2358 296.2511 14.34218976774651
Epoch (UTC): 20 May 2013 10:40:41
Eccentricity: 0.0002198
inclination: 86.3949°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 283.9459°
argument of perigee: 120.2358°
revolutions per day: 14.34218976
mean anomaly at epoch: 296.2511°
orbit number at epoch: 77465

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

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