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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   23150.44547314  .00000067  00000-0  11878-3 0  9996
2 00016  34.2629 284.5520 2022653  99.1721 284.1752 10.48832584571915
Epoch (UTC): 30 May 2023 10:41:28
Eccentricity: 0.2022653
inclination: 34.2629°
perigee height: 654 km
apogee height: 4221 km
right ascension of ascending node: 284.5520°
argument of perigee: 99.1721°
revolutions per day: 10.48832584
mean anomaly at epoch: 284.1752°
orbit number at epoch: 57191

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

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