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   13142.34636148 -.00000125  00000-0 -37813-3 0  8989
2 00050 047.2296 218.1726 0114468 187.8321 172.0680 12.20075665355290
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 08:18:45
Eccentricity: 0.0114468
inclination: 47.2296°
perigee height: 1501 km
apogee height: 1683 km
right ascension of ascending node: 218.1726°
argument of perigee: 187.8321°
revolutions per day: 12.20075665
mean anomaly at epoch: 172.0680°
orbit number at epoch: 35529

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

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