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   13142.24144946  .00001095  00000-0  23553-3 0  1567
2 28931 098.0329 207.9777 0001005 044.7241 315.4047 14.60399758390258
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 05:47:41
Eccentricity: 0.0001005
inclination: 98.0329°
perigee height: 691 km
apogee height: 692 km
right ascension of ascending node: 207.9777°
argument of perigee: 44.7241°
revolutions per day: 14.60399758
mean anomaly at epoch: 315.4047°
orbit number at epoch: 39025

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

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