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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   25139.88778395  .00000092  00000-0  11199-3 0  9990
2     5  34.2449  88.2258 1840985 165.2219 201.0528 10.85923107400612
Epoch (UTC): 19 May 2025 21:18:24
Eccentricity: 0.1840985
inclination: 34.2449°
perigee height: 650 km
apogee height: 3821 km
right ascension of ascending node: 88.2258°
argument of perigee: 165.2219°
revolutions per day: 10.85923107
mean anomaly at epoch: 201.0528°
orbit number at epoch: 40061

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

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