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Vanguard 1 Rocket - 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 00016U 58002A   23080.44109572  .00000065  00000-0  86452-4 0  9997
2 00016  34.2605 126.6939 2025600 163.9965 203.5566 10.48818242564560
Epoch (UTC): 21 March 2023 10:35:10
Eccentricity: 0.2025600
inclination: 34.2605°
perigee height: 652 km
apogee height: 4223 km
right ascension of ascending node: 126.6939°
argument of perigee: 163.9965°
revolutions per day: 10.48818242
mean anomaly at epoch: 203.5566°
orbit number at epoch: 56456

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

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