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   13139.82802169  .00029544  00000-0  47941-3 0   235
2 00063 048.5143 086.7156 0014876 078.9192 281.3425 15.52280669859372
Epoch (UTC): 19 May 2013 19:52:21
Eccentricity: 0.0014876
inclination: 48.5143°
perigee height: 400 km
apogee height: 420 km
right ascension of ascending node: 86.7156°
argument of perigee: 78.9192°
revolutions per day: 15.52280669
mean anomaly at epoch: 281.3425°
orbit number at epoch: 85937

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

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