Iridium 73 - 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 25344U 98032C   13145.47412730  .00000515  00000-0  13363-3 0  1961
2 25344 086.4430 109.5416 0001965 087.2756 061.7000 14.47867736792765
Epoch (UTC): 25 May 2013 11:22:44
Eccentricity: 0.0001965
inclination: 86.4430°
perigee height: 731 km
apogee height: 734 km
right ascension of ascending node: 109.5416°
argument of perigee: 87.2756°
revolutions per day: 14.47867736
mean anomaly at epoch: 61.7000°
orbit number at epoch: 79276

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

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