Tiros 1 despin weight - 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 00115U 60002D   13168.49296764  .00000538  00000-0  10005-3 0  1167
2 00115 048.1673 306.1969 0038290 162.0028 246.1546 14.79114656833638
Epoch (UTC): 17 June 2013 11:49:52
Eccentricity: 0.0038290
inclination: 48.1673°
perigee height: 605 km
apogee height: 659 km
right ascension of ascending node: 306.1969°
argument of perigee: 162.0028°
revolutions per day: 14.79114656
mean anomaly at epoch: 246.1546°
orbit number at epoch: 83363

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

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