SL-16 R/B - 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 28353U 04021B   13139.81660882 -.00000252  00000-0 -10740-3 0  4906
2 28353 071.0021 321.5343 0007512 292.8956 158.7789 14.14028048461616
Epoch (UTC): 19 May 2013 19:35:55
Eccentricity: 0.0007512
inclination: 71.0021°
perigee height: 840 km
apogee height: 851 km
right ascension of ascending node: 321.5343°
argument of perigee: 292.8956°
revolutions per day: 14.14028048
mean anomaly at epoch: 158.7789°
orbit number at epoch: 46161

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

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