Helios 1B - 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 25977U 99064A   13141.12839362  .00000965  00000-0  13751-3 0  9521
2 25977 098.2082 206.1895 0002440 081.0904 333.8086 14.79173704723763
Epoch (UTC): 21 May 2013 03:04:53
Eccentricity: 0.0002440
inclination: 98.2082°
perigee height: 630 km
apogee height: 633 km
right ascension of ascending node: 206.1895°
argument of perigee: 81.0904°
revolutions per day: 14.79173704
mean anomaly at epoch: 333.8086°
orbit number at epoch: 72376

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

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