ALOS - 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 28931U 06002A   13144.84502384  .00000988  00000-0  21340-3 0  1640
2 28931 098.0329 210.5030 0000839 046.1667 313.9593 14.60404798390634
Epoch (UTC): 24 May 2013 20:16:50
Eccentricity: 0.0000839
inclination: 98.0329°
perigee height: 691 km
apogee height: 692 km
right ascension of ascending node: 210.5030°
argument of perigee: 46.1667°
revolutions per day: 14.60404798
mean anomaly at epoch: 313.9593°
orbit number at epoch: 39063

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

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