Iridium 94 - 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 27374U 02005C   13139.45751146  .00000143  00000-0  43857-4 0   181
2 27374 086.3967 158.4280 0002437 215.0876 282.4446 14.34216728602429
Epoch (UTC): 19 May 2013 10:58:48
Eccentricity: 0.0002437
inclination: 86.3967°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 158.4280°
argument of perigee: 215.0876°
revolutions per day: 14.34216728
mean anomaly at epoch: 282.4446°
orbit number at epoch: 60242

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

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