USA 186 - 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 28888U 05042A   13169.83465417 0.00023000  00000-0  22700-3 0    05
2 28888  97.9433 232.7817 0545725  80.6590 279.3409 14.74638366    09
Epoch (UTC): 18 June 2013 20:01:54
Eccentricity: 0.0545725
inclination: 97.9433°
perigee height: 263 km
apogee height: 1029 km
right ascension of ascending node: 232.7817°
argument of perigee: 80.6590°
revolutions per day: 14.74638366
mean anomaly at epoch: 279.3409°
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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