Cosmos 304 Rocket - 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 04139U 69091B   13145.18053475  .00000546  00000-0  11615-3 0  5931
2 04139 074.0339 067.3819 0005074 185.9197 323.3916 14.61500839312274
Epoch (UTC): 25 May 2013 04:19:58
Eccentricity: 0.0005074
inclination: 74.0339°
perigee height: 685 km
apogee height: 692 km
right ascension of ascending node: 67.3819°
argument of perigee: 185.9197°
revolutions per day: 14.61500839
mean anomaly at epoch: 323.3916°
orbit number at epoch: 31227

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

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