SBIRS GEO 1 (USA 230) - 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 37481U 11019A   13001.00000000 0.00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    03
2 37481   5.7165 320.5489 0002691 289.0931 305.0149  1.00270000    02
Epoch (UTC): 01 January 2013 00:00:00
Eccentricity: 0.0002691
inclination: 5.7165°
perigee height: 35775 km
apogee height: 35798 km
right ascension of ascending node: 320.5489°
argument of perigee: 289.0931°
revolutions per day: 1.00270000
mean anomaly at epoch: 305.0149°
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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