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   13145.25018816  .00067297  00000-0  38205-3 0  8851
2 37820 042.7768 139.8301 0004608 253.2621 223.2687 15.78096702 95021
Epoch (UTC): 25 May 2013 06:00:16
Eccentricity: 0.0004608
inclination: 42.7768°
perigee height: 333 km
apogee height: 339 km
right ascension of ascending node: 139.8301°
argument of perigee: 253.2621°
revolutions per day: 15.78096702
mean anomaly at epoch: 223.2687°
orbit number at epoch: 9502

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

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