Palapa 6 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 20571U 90034B   13142.78031953  .00001122  00000-0  12331-3 0  2091
2 20571 022.7497 038.2425 0524172 283.6757 119.0890 14.07991235181954
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 18:43:39
Eccentricity: 0.0524172
inclination: 22.7497°
perigee height: 486 km
apogee height: 1246 km
right ascension of ascending node: 38.2425°
argument of perigee: 283.6757°
revolutions per day: 14.07991235
mean anomaly at epoch: 119.0890°
orbit number at epoch: 18195

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

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