Courier 1B Rocket - 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 00059U 60013B   13142.43703193  .00000094  00000-0  26680-5 0  7601
2 00059 028.2478 165.6861 0189226 207.6341 151.4035 13.52863449597040
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 10:29:19
Eccentricity: 0.0189226
inclination: 28.2478°
perigee height: 921 km
apogee height: 1202 km
right ascension of ascending node: 165.6861°
argument of perigee: 207.6341°
revolutions per day: 13.52863449
mean anomaly at epoch: 151.4035°
orbit number at epoch: 59704

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

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