Iridium 95 - 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 27375U 02005D   13140.47449479  .00000335  00000-0  11253-3 0  8117
2 27375 086.4000 189.6268 0002274 111.3817 248.7622 14.34221074597539
Epoch (UTC): 20 May 2013 11:23:16
Eccentricity: 0.0002274
inclination: 86.4000°
perigee height: 776 km
apogee height: 779 km
right ascension of ascending node: 189.6268°
argument of perigee: 111.3817°
revolutions per day: 14.34221074
mean anomaly at epoch: 248.7622°
orbit number at epoch: 59753

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

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