ISS - 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 25544U 98067A   13140.47830631  .00017579  00000-0  31093-3 0  8459
2 25544 051.6490 245.7284 0009173 337.5909 118.5513 15.50363490830400
Epoch (UTC): 20 May 2013 11:28:45
Eccentricity: 0.0009173
inclination: 51.6490°
perigee height: 409 km
apogee height: 422 km
right ascension of ascending node: 245.7284°
argument of perigee: 337.5909°
revolutions per day: 15.50363490
mean anomaly at epoch: 118.5513°
orbit number at epoch: 83040

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

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