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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   25106.59002743  .00000233  00000-0  31099-3 0  9997
2 00005  34.2429 191.0238 1840587  15.0525 349.8088 10.85913093396902
Epoch (UTC): 16 April 2025 14:09:38
Eccentricity: 0.1840587
inclination: 34.2429°
perigee height: 650 km
apogee height: 3821 km
right ascension of ascending node: 191.0238°
argument of perigee: 15.0525°
revolutions per day: 10.85913093
mean anomaly at epoch: 349.8088°
orbit number at epoch: 39690

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

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