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Location: Eldred Sherwood Park Lake Dam
(42.9416°N, 93.5655°W)
Time: 23:52:47
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Transit 2A - 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 00045U 60007A   24309.57415702  .00002542  00000-0  63695-3 0  9996
2 00045  66.6934 118.8683 0257155 230.5151 127.2957 14.35077433295413
Epoch (UTC): 04 November 2024 13:46:47
Eccentricity: 0.0257155
inclination: 66.6934°
perigee height: 591 km
apogee height: 959 km
right ascension of ascending node: 118.8683°
argument of perigee: 230.5151°
revolutions per day: 14.35077433
mean anomaly at epoch: 127.2957°
orbit number at epoch: 29541

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

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