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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   24281.06296976  .00001886  00000-0  23373-2 0  9995
2     5  34.2553  62.1087 1843561 231.6581 110.3667 10.85695898376174
Epoch (UTC): 07 October 2024 01:30:40
Eccentricity: 0.1843561
inclination: 34.2553°
perigee height: 649 km
apogee height: 3825 km
right ascension of ascending node: 62.1087°
argument of perigee: 231.6581°
revolutions per day: 10.85695898
mean anomaly at epoch: 110.3667°
orbit number at epoch: 37617

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

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