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Transit 4A - 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 00116U 61015A   23263.87251096  .00000099  00000-0  13392-3 0  9994
2 00116  66.8102 177.8211 0082321 255.5737 103.6196 13.91944989157466
Epoch (UTC): 20 September 2023 20:56:24
Eccentricity: 0.0082321
inclination: 66.8102°
perigee height: 862 km
apogee height: 982 km
right ascension of ascending node: 177.8211°
argument of perigee: 255.5737°
revolutions per day: 13.91944989
mean anomaly at epoch: 103.6196°
orbit number at epoch: 15746

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

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