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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   23275.91062299  .00000230  00000-0  30364-3 0  9991
2 00005  34.2446 123.2630 1844691   4.4816 357.0067 10.85089181335867
Epoch (UTC): 02 October 2023 21:51:17
Eccentricity: 0.1844691
inclination: 34.2446°
perigee height: 650 km
apogee height: 3830 km
right ascension of ascending node: 123.2630°
argument of perigee: 4.4816°
revolutions per day: 10.85089181
mean anomaly at epoch: 357.0067°
orbit number at epoch: 33586

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

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