ATLAS 3B R/B - 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 28538U 05004B   13157.11241159 0.00000070  00000-0  10683-3 0    07
2 28538  63.8210  48.8614 0215000 271.2759  88.7241 13.42988852    00
Epoch (UTC): 06 June 2013 02:41:52
Eccentricity: 0.0215000
inclination: 63.8210°
perigee height: 937 km
apogee height: 1259 km
right ascension of ascending node: 48.8614°
argument of perigee: 271.2759°
revolutions per day: 13.42988852
mean anomaly at epoch: 88.7241°
orbit number at epoch: 0

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

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