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USA 129 - Orbit Data

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View from above orbital plane

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View from above satellite

Ground track

Ground track

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

1 24680U 96072A   10036.44411713 0.00005100  00000-0  78632-4 0    08
2 24680  97.7880  90.4220 0453415  34.5985 325.4014 14.85736937    06

Epoch (UTC): 10:39:32 AM, Friday, February 05, 2010
Eccentricity: 0.0453415
Inclination: 97.7880°
Perigee Height: 294 km
Apogee Height: 928 km
Right Ascension of Ascending Node: 90.4220°
Argument of Perigee: 34.5985°
Revolutions per Day: 14.85736937
Mean Anomaly at Epoch: 325.4014°
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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