Tiangong 1 - 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 37820U 11053A   13142.20091874  .00066176  00000-0  38205-3 0  8741
2 37820 042.7727 158.4721 0005847 230.2465 183.6559 15.77718315 94549
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 04:49:19
Eccentricity: 0.0005847
inclination: 42.7727°
perigee height: 333 km
apogee height: 341 km
right ascension of ascending node: 158.4721°
argument of perigee: 230.2465°
revolutions per day: 15.77718315
mean anomaly at epoch: 183.6559°
orbit number at epoch: 9454

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

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