Iridium 37 - 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 24968U 97056D   13169.41285857  .00000193  00000-0  61717-4 0  3663
2 24968 086.3967 208.9628 0002371 110.0854 250.0597 14.34218733823307
Epoch (UTC): 18 June 2013 09:54:30
Eccentricity: 0.0002371
inclination: 86.3967°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 208.9628°
argument of perigee: 110.0854°
revolutions per day: 14.34218733
mean anomaly at epoch: 250.0597°
orbit number at epoch: 82330

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

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