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Iridium Sim1 - 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 24925U 97048A   24358.15751134  .00000788  00000-0  85489-4 0  9990
2 24925  86.3355 216.6423 0008717  60.3230 299.8861 14.86689348479218
Epoch (UTC): 23 December 2024 03:46:48
Eccentricity: 0.0008717
inclination: 86.3355°
perigee height: 602 km
apogee height: 614 km
right ascension of ascending node: 216.6423°
argument of perigee: 60.3230°
revolutions per day: 14.86689348
mean anomaly at epoch: 299.8861°
orbit number at epoch: 47921

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

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