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   13141.70914534  .00000135  00000-0  72411-4 0  3965
2 00058 028.3276 242.1752 0165032 278.9503 079.2395 13.46260270590704
Epoch (UTC): 21 May 2013 17:01:10
Eccentricity: 0.0165032
inclination: 28.3276°
perigee height: 963 km
apogee height: 1209 km
right ascension of ascending node: 242.1752°
argument of perigee: 278.9503°
revolutions per day: 13.46260270
mean anomaly at epoch: 79.2395°
orbit number at epoch: 59070

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

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