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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   24276.17438608  .00000803  00000-0  11123-2 0  9991
2 00016  34.2663 306.8035 2024711   9.5868 353.8019 10.49433821623455
Epoch (UTC): 02 October 2024 04:11:06
Eccentricity: 0.2024711
inclination: 34.2663°
perigee height: 650 km
apogee height: 4218 km
right ascension of ascending node: 306.8035°
argument of perigee: 9.5868°
revolutions per day: 10.49433821
mean anomaly at epoch: 353.8019°
orbit number at epoch: 62345

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

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