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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   23081.12350778  .00000109  00000-0  11784-3 0  9991
2 00005  34.2562   3.6397 1846431 207.5915 141.3424 10.85073303314707
Epoch (UTC): 22 March 2023 02:57:51
Eccentricity: 0.1846431
inclination: 34.2562°
perigee height: 649 km
apogee height: 3831 km
right ascension of ascending node: 3.6397°
argument of perigee: 207.5915°
revolutions per day: 10.85073303
mean anomaly at epoch: 141.3424°
orbit number at epoch: 31470

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

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