ALOS - 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 28931U 06002A   13144.50244866  .00001080  00000-0  23239-3 0  1633
2 28931 098.0331 210.1708 0000878 043.3276 316.7999 14.60404631390584
Epoch (UTC): 24 May 2013 12:03:31
Eccentricity: 0.0000878
inclination: 98.0331°
perigee height: 691 km
apogee height: 692 km
right ascension of ascending node: 210.1708°
argument of perigee: 43.3276°
revolutions per day: 14.60404631
mean anomaly at epoch: 316.7999°
orbit number at epoch: 39058

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

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