Cosmos 540 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 06324U 72104B   13141.73676988  .00000193  00000-0  66070-4 0  9753
2 06324 074.0774 341.2923 0008748 148.2271 336.1653 14.42672938121010
Epoch (UTC): 21 May 2013 17:40:56
Eccentricity: 0.0008748
inclination: 74.0774°
perigee height: 743 km
apogee height: 756 km
right ascension of ascending node: 341.2923°
argument of perigee: 148.2271°
revolutions per day: 14.42672938
mean anomaly at epoch: 336.1653°
orbit number at epoch: 12101

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

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