NOAA 17 - 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 27453U 02032A   13138.51868400  .00000140  00000-0  77894-4 0  1341
2 27453 098.3128 154.1725 0010662 249.3574 272.7983 14.24589097566495
Epoch (UTC): 18 May 2013 12:26:54
Eccentricity: 0.0010662
inclination: 98.3128°
perigee height: 802 km
apogee height: 817 km
right ascension of ascending node: 154.1725°
argument of perigee: 249.3574°
revolutions per day: 14.24589097
mean anomaly at epoch: 272.7983°
orbit number at epoch: 56649

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

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