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   13143.73857550  .00066745  00000-0  38205-3 0  8811
2 37820 042.7770 149.0726 0005549 243.1464 275.6404 15.77909314 94787
Epoch (UTC): 23 May 2013 17:43:32
Eccentricity: 0.0005549
inclination: 42.7770°
perigee height: 332 km
apogee height: 340 km
right ascension of ascending node: 149.0726°
argument of perigee: 243.1464°
revolutions per day: 15.77909314
mean anomaly at epoch: 275.6404°
orbit number at epoch: 9478

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

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