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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     5U 58002B   23267.07042684  .00000127  00000-0  15563-3 0  9994
2     5  34.2511 150.5140 1845672 324.6715  24.4202 10.85085269335009
Epoch (UTC): 24 September 2023 01:41:24
Eccentricity: 0.1845672
inclination: 34.2511°
perigee height: 649 km
apogee height: 3831 km
right ascension of ascending node: 150.5140°
argument of perigee: 324.6715°
revolutions per day: 10.85085269
mean anomaly at epoch: 24.4202°
orbit number at epoch: 33500

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

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