EARTH-CENTERED INERTIAL VIEW
Right ascension of the ascending node
Numerical / osculating · First-order secular estimate
Watch Earth’s oblateness turn the orbital plane.
Numerical / osculating · First-order secular estimate
Altitude means semimajor axis minus Earth radius. Angles are in degrees; these are initial osculating elements.
Blue: current ellipse · gray: initial ellipse · gold: recent path · red: spacecraft · purple: ascending node
Drag to rotate · scroll to zoom. Earth rotates at the sidereal rate; its initial Greenwich orientation is illustrative. Numerical two-body + J2 model, with no drag or thrust. RAAN auto-scales; a wrap crossing expands the range.