Iridium 94 - 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 27374U 02005C   13143.50661803  .00000023  00000-0  10666-5 0   227
2 27374 086.3967 156.7359 0002951 200.1908 310.3835 14.34214463603001
Epoch (UTC): 23 May 2013 12:09:31
Eccentricity: 0.0002951
inclination: 86.3967°
perigee height: 775 km
apogee height: 780 km
right ascension of ascending node: 156.7359°
argument of perigee: 200.1908°
revolutions per day: 14.34214463
mean anomaly at epoch: 310.3835°
orbit number at epoch: 60300

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

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