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Vanguard 1 - 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 00005U 58002B   23335.27774442  .00000666  00000-0  82667-3 0  9993
2 00005  34.2604 300.2997 1843115 271.7817  67.3740 10.85124451342313
Epoch (UTC): 01 December 2023 06:39:57
Eccentricity: 0.1843115
inclination: 34.2604°
perigee height: 651 km
apogee height: 3828 km
right ascension of ascending node: 300.2997°
argument of perigee: 271.7817°
revolutions per day: 10.85124451
mean anomaly at epoch: 67.3740°
orbit number at epoch: 34231

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

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