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   13140.14967992  .00000117  00000-0  34597-4 0  7595
2 00059 028.2475 177.4338 0189280 188.4270 171.3069 13.52863012596733
Epoch (UTC): 20 May 2013 03:35:32
Eccentricity: 0.0189280
inclination: 28.2475°
perigee height: 921 km
apogee height: 1202 km
right ascension of ascending node: 177.4338°
argument of perigee: 188.4270°
revolutions per day: 13.52863012
mean anomaly at epoch: 171.3069°
orbit number at epoch: 59673

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

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