IDEFIX/ARIANE 42P - 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 27422U 02021B   13142.79915531  .00000169  00000-0  83564-4 0  2060
2 27422 098.3531 197.6917 0011257 320.5970 152.3623 14.28855217574382
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 19:10:47
Eccentricity: 0.0011257
inclination: 98.3531°
perigee height: 787 km
apogee height: 803 km
right ascension of ascending node: 197.6917°
argument of perigee: 320.5970°
revolutions per day: 14.28855217
mean anomaly at epoch: 152.3623°
orbit number at epoch: 57438

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

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