Vanguard 1 - 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 00005U 58002B   13168.14152037  .00000075  00000-0  10802-3 0  1024
2 00005 034.2421 183.8144 1849954 007.9005 354.6952 10.84313237927669
Epoch (UTC): 17 June 2013 03:23:47
Eccentricity: 0.1849954
inclination: 34.2421°
perigee height: 649 km
apogee height: 3839 km
right ascension of ascending node: 183.8144°
argument of perigee: 7.9005°
revolutions per day: 10.84313237
mean anomaly at epoch: 354.6952°
orbit number at epoch: 92766

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

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