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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   23086.73693168  .00000141  00000-0  15223-3 0  9994
2 00005  34.2607 346.3417 1846818 232.8595 108.8821 10.85075180315313
Epoch (UTC): 27 March 2023 17:41:10
Eccentricity: 0.1846818
inclination: 34.2607°
perigee height: 648 km
apogee height: 3832 km
right ascension of ascending node: 346.3417°
argument of perigee: 232.8595°
revolutions per day: 10.85075180
mean anomaly at epoch: 108.8821°
orbit number at epoch: 31531

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

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