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HST - Orbit Data

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Ground track

Ground track

The orbit data is extracted from the following two-line orbital elements,

1 20580U 90037B   10039.31536863  .00000423  00000-0  19571-4 0  5141
2 20580 028.4702 001.1182 0003300 268.1978 091.8283 15.00889866885362

Epoch (UTC): 7:34:08 AM, Monday, February 08, 2010
Eccentricity: 0.0003300
Inclination: 028.4702°
Perigee Height: 562 km
Apogee Height: 566 km
Right Ascension of Ascending Node: 001.1182°
Argument of Perigee: 268.1978°
Revolutions per Day: 15.00889866
Mean Anomaly at Epoch: 091.8283°
Orbit Number at Epoch: 88536

The dashed part of the orbit path shows where the satellite is in the earth's shadow, and the full part is where it is sunlit.


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