FALCON 1 R/B - Orbit Data

View from orbit pole
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 35579U 09037B   10211.27507613  .00000820  00000-0  30766-4 0  2645
2 35579 009.0472 260.5124 0052378 333.5854 026.2039 14.73104996 56286
Epoch (UTC): 06:36:06, Friday, July 30, 2010
Eccentricity: 0.0052378
Inclination: 9.0472°
Perigee height: 614 km
Apogee height: 688 km
Right Ascension of ascending node: 260.5124°
Argument of perigee: 333.5854°
Revolutions per day: 14.73104996
Mean anomaly at epoch: 26.2039°
Orbit number at epoch: 5628

The dashed part of the orbit path shows where the satellite is in the earth's shadow,
and the full part is where it is sunlit.  


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