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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   23265.47903921  .00000505  00000-0  68867-3 0  9993
2 00016  34.2725 312.4063 2020596 224.3071 117.7080 10.48891243583992
Epoch (UTC): 22 September 2023 11:29:48
Eccentricity: 0.2020596
inclination: 34.2725°
perigee height: 656 km
apogee height: 4218 km
right ascension of ascending node: 312.4063°
argument of perigee: 224.3071°
revolutions per day: 10.48891243
mean anomaly at epoch: 117.7080°
orbit number at epoch: 58399

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

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