ASTEX 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 05560U 71089A   13143.78306250  .00000488  00000-0  13487-3 0    70
2 05560 092.7238 085.4518 0014859 338.3136 053.1948 14.46851689186269
Epoch (UTC): 23 May 2013 18:47:36
Eccentricity: 0.0014859
inclination: 92.7238°
perigee height: 725 km
apogee height: 746 km
right ascension of ascending node: 85.4518°
argument of perigee: 338.3136°
revolutions per day: 14.46851689
mean anomaly at epoch: 53.1948°
orbit number at epoch: 18626

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

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