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   13137.36675735  .00002136  00000-0  31155-3 0   915
2 00115 048.1664 094.8094 0037915 023.7599 111.8579 14.79012140829024
Epoch (UTC): 17 May 2013 08:48:07
Eccentricity: 0.0037915
inclination: 48.1664°
perigee height: 606 km
apogee height: 659 km
right ascension of ascending node: 94.8094°
argument of perigee: 23.7599°
revolutions per day: 14.79012140
mean anomaly at epoch: 111.8579°
orbit number at epoch: 82902

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

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