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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   24282.36354589  .00001418  00000-0  19641-2 0  9990
2 00016  34.2640 288.9015 2024378  35.7251 336.3246 10.49447353624100
Epoch (UTC): 08 October 2024 08:43:30
Eccentricity: 0.2024378
inclination: 34.2640°
perigee height: 650 km
apogee height: 4218 km
right ascension of ascending node: 288.9015°
argument of perigee: 35.7251°
revolutions per day: 10.49447353
mean anomaly at epoch: 336.3246°
orbit number at epoch: 62410

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

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