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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   24280.36401333  .00000814  00000-0  11350-2 0  9996
2 00016  34.2649 294.6853 2024518  27.2793 342.0944 10.49439884623890
Epoch (UTC): 06 October 2024 08:44:10
Eccentricity: 0.2024518
inclination: 34.2649°
perigee height: 650 km
apogee height: 4218 km
right ascension of ascending node: 294.6853°
argument of perigee: 27.2793°
revolutions per day: 10.49439884
mean anomaly at epoch: 342.0944°
orbit number at epoch: 62389

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

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