Helios 1B rocket - 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 25979U 99064C   13138.16977844  .00003118  00000-0  34895-3 0  5308
2 25979 098.1640 263.5245 0008533 149.8660 210.3047 14.87639385727829
Epoch (UTC): 18 May 2013 04:04:28
Eccentricity: 0.0008533
inclination: 98.1640°
perigee height: 599 km
apogee height: 611 km
right ascension of ascending node: 263.5245°
argument of perigee: 149.8660°
revolutions per day: 14.87639385
mean anomaly at epoch: 210.3047°
orbit number at epoch: 72782

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

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