Explorer 7 - 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 00022U 59009A   13139.82369289  .00005260  00000-0  48733-3 0  6113
2 00022 050.2856 308.0326 0161876 137.6322 001.9638 14.86558360839099
Epoch (UTC): 19 May 2013 19:46:07
Eccentricity: 0.0161876
inclination: 50.2856°
perigee height: 495 km
apogee height: 722 km
right ascension of ascending node: 308.0326°
argument of perigee: 137.6322°
revolutions per day: 14.86558360
mean anomaly at epoch: 1.9638°
orbit number at epoch: 83909

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

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