Cosmos 1538 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 14760U 84019B   13143.71365556  .00000166  00000-0  66807-4 0   355
2 14760 074.0443 325.9399 0028124 192.4495 243.2025 14.35296937530413
Epoch (UTC): 23 May 2013 17:07:39
Eccentricity: 0.0028124
inclination: 74.0443°
perigee height: 754 km
apogee height: 794 km
right ascension of ascending node: 325.9399°
argument of perigee: 192.4495°
revolutions per day: 14.35296937
mean anomaly at epoch: 243.2025°
orbit number at epoch: 53041

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

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