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   13137.24297716  .00000403  00000-0  13701-3 0    33
2 27376 087.1955 206.5270 0001822 225.4489 134.6559 14.34232192602272
Epoch (UTC): 17 May 2013 05:49:53
Eccentricity: 0.0001822
inclination: 87.1955°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 206.5270°
argument of perigee: 225.4489°
revolutions per day: 14.34232192
mean anomaly at epoch: 134.6559°
orbit number at epoch: 60227

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

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