Lacrosse 5 - 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 28646U 05016A   13138.67373285 0.00000100  00000-0  23797-4 0    01
2 28646  57.0140 294.5006 0007000  45.4025 314.5974 14.53509706    01
Epoch (UTC): 18 May 2013 16:10:10
Eccentricity: 0.0007000
inclination: 57.0140°
perigee height: 709 km
apogee height: 719 km
right ascension of ascending node: 294.5006°
argument of perigee: 45.4025°
revolutions per day: 14.53509706
mean anomaly at epoch: 314.5974°
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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