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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   23337.47763725  .00000827  00000-0  11652-2 0  9995
2 00016  34.2600 104.4935 2020562 167.9854 197.7384 10.48988585591557
Epoch (UTC): 03 December 2023 11:27:47
Eccentricity: 0.2020562
inclination: 34.2600°
perigee height: 656 km
apogee height: 4218 km
right ascension of ascending node: 104.4935°
argument of perigee: 167.9854°
revolutions per day: 10.48988585
mean anomaly at epoch: 197.7384°
orbit number at epoch: 59155

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

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