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Iridium Sim2 - 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 24926U 97048B   24358.15776133  .00000786  00000-0  85789-4 0  9998
2 24926  86.3354 218.2170 0009708  68.4077 291.8181 14.86443893478998
Epoch (UTC): 23 December 2024 03:47:10
Eccentricity: 0.0009708
inclination: 86.3354°
perigee height: 602 km
apogee height: 616 km
right ascension of ascending node: 218.2170°
argument of perigee: 68.4077°
revolutions per day: 14.86443893
mean anomaly at epoch: 291.8181°
orbit number at epoch: 47899

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

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