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   13144.22838908  .00001068  00000-0  22992-3 0  1628
2 28931 098.0332 209.9052 0000892 042.7889 317.3405 14.60403888390540
Epoch (UTC): 24 May 2013 05:28:52
Eccentricity: 0.0000892
inclination: 98.0332°
perigee height: 691 km
apogee height: 692 km
right ascension of ascending node: 209.9052°
argument of perigee: 42.7889°
revolutions per day: 14.60403888
mean anomaly at epoch: 317.3405°
orbit number at epoch: 39054

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

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