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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   23331.04346321  .00000443  00000-0  53955-3 0  9996
2 00005  34.2598 313.3424 1843308 252.7295  86.4146 10.85118526341854
Epoch (UTC): 27 November 2023 01:02:35
Eccentricity: 0.1843308
inclination: 34.2598°
perigee height: 651 km
apogee height: 3828 km
right ascension of ascending node: 313.3424°
argument of perigee: 252.7295°
revolutions per day: 10.85118526
mean anomaly at epoch: 86.4146°
orbit number at epoch: 34185

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

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