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   13169.47597069  .00000059  00000-0  14412-4 0   406
2 27376 087.1927 196.0401 0005473 136.8244 223.3383 14.34217510606890
Epoch (UTC): 18 June 2013 11:25:23
Eccentricity: 0.0005473
inclination: 87.1927°
perigee height: 774 km
apogee height: 781 km
right ascension of ascending node: 196.0401°
argument of perigee: 136.8244°
revolutions per day: 14.34217510
mean anomaly at epoch: 223.3383°
orbit number at epoch: 60689

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

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