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   13144.50304695  .00000103  00000-0  15432-4 0  7619
2 00059 028.2481 155.0746 0189184 224.9830 133.5248 13.52863450597327
Epoch (UTC): 24 May 2013 12:04:23
Eccentricity: 0.0189184
inclination: 28.2481°
perigee height: 921 km
apogee height: 1202 km
right ascension of ascending node: 155.0746°
argument of perigee: 224.9830°
revolutions per day: 13.52863450
mean anomaly at epoch: 133.5248°
orbit number at epoch: 59732

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

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