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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   25162.87614111  .00000029  00000-0  13051-4 0  9990
2     5  34.2634  17.2796 1841963 268.8617  70.1548 10.85926710403114
Epoch (UTC): 11 June 2025 21:01:38
Eccentricity: 0.1841963
inclination: 34.2634°
perigee height: 649 km
apogee height: 3822 km
right ascension of ascending node: 17.2796°
argument of perigee: 268.8617°
revolutions per day: 10.85926710
mean anomaly at epoch: 70.1548°
orbit number at epoch: 40311

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

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