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   13141.81120370  .00062145  00000-0  38205-3 0  8721
2 37820 042.7793 160.8515 0004684 170.5411 186.9945 15.76332729 94472
Epoch (UTC): 21 May 2013 19:28:08
Eccentricity: 0.0004684
inclination: 42.7793°
perigee height: 338 km
apogee height: 344 km
right ascension of ascending node: 160.8515°
argument of perigee: 170.5411°
revolutions per day: 15.76332729
mean anomaly at epoch: 186.9945°
orbit number at epoch: 9447

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

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