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ACS3 Solar Sail - 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 59588U 24077B   25136.52645524  .00008874  00000-0  88181-2 0  9990
2 59588  97.4812 137.5451 0050330  80.0478 280.6354 13.77737522 53136
Epoch (UTC): 16 May 2025 12:38:05
Eccentricity: 0.0050330
inclination: 97.4812°
perigee height: 935 km
apogee height: 1009 km
right ascension of ascending node: 137.5451°
argument of perigee: 80.0478°
revolutions per day: 13.77737522
mean anomaly at epoch: 280.6354°
orbit number at epoch: 5313

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

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