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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   25140.53135029  .00000085  00000-0  10276-3 0  9992
2 00005  34.2455  86.2388 1840993 168.1250 196.9621 10.85923198400590
Epoch (UTC): 20 May 2025 12:45:08
Eccentricity: 0.1840993
inclination: 34.2455°
perigee height: 650 km
apogee height: 3821 km
right ascension of ascending node: 86.2388°
argument of perigee: 168.1250°
revolutions per day: 10.85923198
mean anomaly at epoch: 196.9621°
orbit number at epoch: 40059

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

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