Courier 1B - 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 00058U 60013A   13137.77905242  .00000116  00000-0  41786-4 0  3930
2 00058 028.3286 262.1114 0165130 246.4163 111.8960 13.46260072590172
Epoch (UTC): 17 May 2013 18:41:50
Eccentricity: 0.0165130
inclination: 28.3286°
perigee height: 963 km
apogee height: 1209 km
right ascension of ascending node: 262.1114°
argument of perigee: 246.4163°
revolutions per day: 13.46260072
mean anomaly at epoch: 111.8960°
orbit number at epoch: 59017

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

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