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GOES 10 - Orbit Data

View from orbit pole
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 24786U 97019A   10037.79601904 -.00000125  00000-0  10000-3 0  3188
2 24786 004.1044 070.1705 0002773 016.4246 346.8693 00.99073148 46857

Epoch (UTC): 7:06:16 PM, Saturday, February 06, 2010
Eccentricity: 0.0002773
Inclination: 004.1044°
Perigee Height: 36,114 km
Apogee Height: 36,137 km
Right Ascension of Ascending Node: 070.1705°
Argument of Perigee: 016.4246°
Revolutions per Day: 00.99073148
Mean Anomaly at Epoch: 346.8693°
Orbit Number at Epoch: 4685

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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