Altair - 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 00050U 60009B   13168.06476482 -.00000118  00000-0 -31864-3 0  9094
2 00050 047.2304 138.3533 0114526 264.3777 094.3942 12.20076357358435
Epoch (UTC): 17 June 2013 01:33:15
Eccentricity: 0.0114526
inclination: 47.2304°
perigee height: 1501 km
apogee height: 1683 km
right ascension of ascending node: 138.3533°
argument of perigee: 264.3777°
revolutions per day: 12.20076357
mean anomaly at epoch: 94.3942°
orbit number at epoch: 35843

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

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