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Courier 1B Rocket - 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    59U 60013B   23089.16731061  .00000137  00000-0  61434-4 0  9994
2    59  28.2498  40.5774 0189236 171.5458 188.8338 13.53024917 84776
Epoch (UTC): 30 March 2023 04:00:55
Eccentricity: 0.0189236
inclination: 28.2498°
perigee height: 920 km
apogee height: 1202 km
right ascension of ascending node: 40.5774°
argument of perigee: 171.5458°
revolutions per day: 13.53024917
mean anomaly at epoch: 188.8338°
orbit number at epoch: 8477

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

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