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Location: Shenandoah County Park
(38.9356°N, 78.4524°W)
Time: 05:37:31
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Explorer 7 - 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 00022U 59009A   23344.86486616  .00004069  00000-0  27098-3 0  9996
2 00022  50.2790 235.5273 0120851  94.1666 267.3107 15.03525034660887
Epoch (UTC): 10 December 2023 20:45:24
Eccentricity: 0.0120851
inclination: 50.2790°
perigee height: 472 km
apogee height: 640 km
right ascension of ascending node: 235.5273°
argument of perigee: 94.1666°
revolutions per day: 15.03525034
mean anomaly at epoch: 267.3107°
orbit number at epoch: 66088

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

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