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   13140.24300561  .00000385  00000-0  13059-3 0    68
2 27376 087.1951 205.5515 0002229 211.6680 148.4383 14.34235330602704
Epoch (UTC): 20 May 2013 05:49:55
Eccentricity: 0.0002229
inclination: 87.1951°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 205.5515°
argument of perigee: 211.6680°
revolutions per day: 14.34235330
mean anomaly at epoch: 148.4383°
orbit number at epoch: 60270

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

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