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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   23332.36899271  .00012634  00000-0  80115-3 0  9999
2 00022  50.2799 294.9175 0121423  45.6478 315.4346 15.03284777659002
Epoch (UTC): 28 November 2023 08:51:20
Eccentricity: 0.0121423
inclination: 50.2799°
perigee height: 472 km
apogee height: 641 km
right ascension of ascending node: 294.9175°
argument of perigee: 45.6478°
revolutions per day: 15.03284777
mean anomaly at epoch: 315.4346°
orbit number at epoch: 65900

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

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