Iridium 96 - 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 27376U 02005E   13139.26625289  .00000409  00000-0  13916-3 0    53
2 27376 087.1953 205.8692 0002093 215.9504 144.1552 14.34234540602563
Epoch (UTC): 19 May 2013 06:23:24
Eccentricity: 0.0002093
inclination: 87.1953°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 205.8692°
argument of perigee: 215.9504°
revolutions per day: 14.34234540
mean anomaly at epoch: 144.1552°
orbit number at epoch: 60256

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

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