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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   23338.61972716  .00000696  00000-0  97740-3 0  9991
2 00016  34.2608 101.1938 2020581 172.8049 190.6795 10.48989574591674
Epoch (UTC): 04 December 2023 14:52:24
Eccentricity: 0.2020581
inclination: 34.2608°
perigee height: 656 km
apogee height: 4218 km
right ascension of ascending node: 101.1938°
argument of perigee: 172.8049°
revolutions per day: 10.48989574
mean anomaly at epoch: 190.6795°
orbit number at epoch: 59167

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

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