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JWST - 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 50463U 21130A   21362.00000000  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0  9999
2 50463   4.6198  89.0659 9884983 192.3200  17.4027  0.01958082    27
Epoch (UTC): 28 December 2021 00:00:00
Eccentricity: 0.9884983
inclination: 4.6198°
perigee height: 309 km
apogee height: 1149825 km
right ascension of ascending node: 89.0659°
argument of perigee: 192.3200°
revolutions per day: 0.01958082
mean anomaly at epoch: 17.4027°
orbit number at epoch: 2

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

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