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USA 129 - Orbit Data

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Ground track

Ground track

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

1 24680U 96072A   09319.79534688 0.00004300  00000-0  68166-4 0    07
2 24680  97.8170  10.2441 0454915 303.4297  56.5702 14.84853973    09

Epoch (UTC): 7:05:18 PM, Sunday, November 15, 2009
Eccentricity: 0.0454915
Inclination: 97.8170°
Perigee Height: 296 km
Apogee Height: 932 km
Right Ascension of Ascending Node: 10.2441°
Argument of Perigee: 303.4297°
Revolutions per Day: 14.84853973
Mean Anomaly at Epoch: 56.5702°
Orbit Number at Epoch: 0

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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