ARGOS - 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 25634U 99008A   13140.80581122  .00000086  00000-0  62310-4 0  8812
2 25634 098.8096 206.6524 0010832 164.0617 333.6968 14.19073155737355
Epoch (UTC): 20 May 2013 19:20:22
Eccentricity: 0.0010832
inclination: 98.8096°
perigee height: 820 km
apogee height: 836 km
right ascension of ascending node: 206.6524°
argument of perigee: 164.0617°
revolutions per day: 14.19073155
mean anomaly at epoch: 333.6968°
orbit number at epoch: 73735

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

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