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Location: Emblem
(62.4273°N, 6.4710°E)
Time: 10:09:26
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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   23160.93351847  .00000002  00000-0 -16484-4 0  9992
2 00005  34.2502 117.6321 1846829 206.9142 142.2602 10.85082190323375
Epoch (UTC): 09 June 2023 22:24:15
Eccentricity: 0.1846829
inclination: 34.2502°
perigee height: 648 km
apogee height: 3832 km
right ascension of ascending node: 117.6321°
argument of perigee: 206.9142°
revolutions per day: 10.85082190
mean anomaly at epoch: 142.2602°
orbit number at epoch: 32337

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

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