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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   24263.68175955  .00001124  00000-0  14133-2 0  9995
2 00005  34.2435 115.7461 1843206 153.3160 217.5526 10.85648047374191
Epoch (UTC): 19 September 2024 16:21:44
Eccentricity: 0.1843206
inclination: 34.2435°
perigee height: 649 km
apogee height: 3825 km
right ascension of ascending node: 115.7461°
argument of perigee: 153.3160°
revolutions per day: 10.85648047
mean anomaly at epoch: 217.5526°
orbit number at epoch: 37419

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

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