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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   23091.38804217  .00000141  00000-0  17280-3 0  9997
2 00016  34.2683  95.0711 2025488 210.1762 136.5138 10.48821314565719
Epoch (UTC): 01 April 2023 09:18:46
Eccentricity: 0.2025488
inclination: 34.2683°
perigee height: 652 km
apogee height: 4223 km
right ascension of ascending node: 95.0711°
argument of perigee: 210.1762°
revolutions per day: 10.48821314
mean anomaly at epoch: 136.5138°
orbit number at epoch: 56571

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

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