YAOGAN 6 - 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 34839U 09021A   13169.37074506  .00002861  00000-0  14418-3 0  6581
2 34839 097.3218 252.3863 0001494 124.4248 301.7364 15.17942807230510
Epoch (UTC): 18 June 2013 08:53:52
Eccentricity: 0.0001494
inclination: 97.3218°
perigee height: 511 km
apogee height: 513 km
right ascension of ascending node: 252.3863°
argument of perigee: 124.4248°
revolutions per day: 15.17942807
mean anomaly at epoch: 301.7364°
orbit number at epoch: 23051

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

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