AO-40 - 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 26609U 00072B   13168.52060877 -.00000183  00000-0  21363-1 0  8196
2 26609 006.9629 107.1241 7965875 001.7925 359.6475 01.25584679 57990
Epoch (UTC): 17 June 2013 12:29:40
Eccentricity: 0.7965875
inclination: 6.9629°
perigee height: 1003 km
apogee height: 58818 km
right ascension of ascending node: 107.1241°
argument of perigee: 1.7925°
revolutions per day: 1.25584679
mean anomaly at epoch: 359.6475°
orbit number at epoch: 5799

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

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