Iridium 90 - 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 27373U 02005B   13141.36015610  .00000516  00000-0  14835-3 0  8390
2 27373 086.4486 251.8787 0001549 271.9547 088.1477 14.42953123596809
Epoch (UTC): 21 May 2013 08:38:37
Eccentricity: 0.0001549
inclination: 86.4486°
perigee height: 747 km
apogee height: 750 km
right ascension of ascending node: 251.8787°
argument of perigee: 271.9547°
revolutions per day: 14.42953123
mean anomaly at epoch: 88.1477°
orbit number at epoch: 59680

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

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