ARIANE 5 R/B - 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 28787U 05028B   13170.49478323  .00000005  00000-0  45842-4 0  3557
2 28787 006.9097 240.0365 7171073 177.3317 191.4931 02.26527374 65030
Epoch (UTC): 19 June 2013 11:52:29
Eccentricity: 0.7171073
inclination: 6.9097°
perigee height: 550 km
apogee height: 35673 km
right ascension of ascending node: 240.0365°
argument of perigee: 177.3317°
revolutions per day: 2.26527374
mean anomaly at epoch: 191.4931°
orbit number at epoch: 6503

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

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