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USA 259 - 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 40344U 14081A   22179.92576680 0.00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    06
2 40344  63.2115 233.1918 6837574 271.4435  17.7233  2.00615000    05
Epoch (UTC): 28 June 2022 22:13:06
Eccentricity: 0.6837574
inclination: 63.2115°
perigee height: 2020 km
apogee height: 38335 km
right ascension of ascending node: 233.1918°
argument of perigee: 271.4435°
revolutions per day: 2.00615000
mean anomaly at epoch: 17.7233°
orbit number at epoch: 0

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

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