Courier 1B - 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 00058U 60013A   13139.41039662  .00000138  00000-0  76476-4 0  3946
2 00058 028.3282 253.8361 0165072 259.9169 098.2715 13.46260057590392
Epoch (UTC): 19 May 2013 09:50:58
Eccentricity: 0.0165072
inclination: 28.3282°
perigee height: 963 km
apogee height: 1209 km
right ascension of ascending node: 253.8361°
argument of perigee: 259.9169°
revolutions per day: 13.46260057
mean anomaly at epoch: 98.2715°
orbit number at epoch: 59039

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

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