Tiros 2 - 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 00063U 60016A   13167.81554884  .00014309  00000-0  22652-3 0   463
2 00063 048.5150 298.0406 0015195 219.9726 140.0102 15.53470412863726
Epoch (UTC): 16 June 2013 19:34:23
Eccentricity: 0.0015195
inclination: 48.5150°
perigee height: 396 km
apogee height: 417 km
right ascension of ascending node: 298.0406°
argument of perigee: 219.9726°
revolutions per day: 15.53470412
mean anomaly at epoch: 140.0102°
orbit number at epoch: 86372

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

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