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   13143.83531904  .00001693  00000-0  25275-3 0   961
2 00115 048.1668 063.9219 0037789 052.4675 353.3204 14.79043756829987
Epoch (UTC): 23 May 2013 20:02:51
Eccentricity: 0.0037789
inclination: 48.1668°
perigee height: 606 km
apogee height: 659 km
right ascension of ascending node: 63.9219°
argument of perigee: 52.4675°
revolutions per day: 14.79043756
mean anomaly at epoch: 353.3204°
orbit number at epoch: 82998

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

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