Vanguard 1 Rocket - 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 00016U 58002A   13168.74011033  .00000115  00000-0  13040-3 0  1596
2 00016 034.2816 335.4974 2029550 259.7575 076.9404 10.48352097190437
Epoch (UTC): 17 June 2013 17:45:45
Eccentricity: 0.2029550
inclination: 34.2816°
perigee height: 650 km
apogee height: 4230 km
right ascension of ascending node: 335.4974°
argument of perigee: 259.7575°
revolutions per day: 10.48352097
mean anomaly at epoch: 76.9404°
orbit number at epoch: 19043

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

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