Vela 2A - 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 00836U 64040A   13076.77012914 -.00000012  00000-0  00000+0 0  4357
2 00836 082.5617 334.7647 4227406 288.0514 000.4985 00.23915440 42511
Epoch (UTC): 17 March 2013 18:28:59
Eccentricity: 0.4227406
inclination: 82.5617°
perigee height: 56909 km
apogee height: 149602 km
right ascension of ascending node: 334.7647°
argument of perigee: 288.0514°
revolutions per day: 0.23915440
mean anomaly at epoch: 0.4985°
orbit number at epoch: 4251

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

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