Tiros 2 - 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 00063U 60016A   13144.84815917  .00029310  00000-0  47114-3 0   275
2 00063 048.5156 060.0692 0014677 105.2885 254.9684 15.52551280860159
Epoch (UTC): 24 May 2013 20:21:20
Eccentricity: 0.0014677
inclination: 48.5156°
perigee height: 399 km
apogee height: 419 km
right ascension of ascending node: 60.0692°
argument of perigee: 105.2885°
revolutions per day: 15.52551280
mean anomaly at epoch: 254.9684°
orbit number at epoch: 86015

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

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