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   13142.82363426  .00066404  00000-0  38205-3 0  8760
2 37820 042.7753 154.6707 0005475 240.7193 114.5350 15.77797193 94634
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 19:46:02
Eccentricity: 0.0005475
inclination: 42.7753°
perigee height: 333 km
apogee height: 340 km
right ascension of ascending node: 154.6707°
argument of perigee: 240.7193°
revolutions per day: 15.77797193
mean anomaly at epoch: 114.5350°
orbit number at epoch: 9463

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

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