Iridium 4 - 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 24796U 97020E   13140.37697457  .00000303  00000-0  10078-3 0  3925
2 24796 086.3991 220.7882 0002184 109.4840 296.4197 14.34365918839828
Epoch (UTC): 20 May 2013 09:02:50
Eccentricity: 0.0002184
inclination: 86.3991°
perigee height: 775 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 220.7882°
argument of perigee: 109.4840°
revolutions per day: 14.34365918
mean anomaly at epoch: 296.4197°
orbit number at epoch: 83982

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

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