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   13142.16312351  .00001580  00000-0  23789-3 0   951
2 00115 048.1664 071.9054 0037859 045.0470 089.7476 14.79036785829736
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 03:54:53
Eccentricity: 0.0037859
inclination: 48.1664°
perigee height: 606 km
apogee height: 659 km
right ascension of ascending node: 71.9054°
argument of perigee: 45.0470°
revolutions per day: 14.79036785
mean anomaly at epoch: 89.7476°
orbit number at epoch: 82973

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

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