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   13142.47558145  .00000339  00000-0  11428-3 0    87
2 27376 087.1947 204.8254 0002541 203.0531 157.0552 14.34236859603025
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 11:24:50
Eccentricity: 0.0002541
inclination: 87.1947°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 204.8254°
argument of perigee: 203.0531°
revolutions per day: 14.34236859
mean anomaly at epoch: 157.0552°
orbit number at epoch: 60302

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

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