Explorer 7 - 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 00022U 59009A   13144.93368461  .00004656  00000-0  43387-3 0  6165
2 00022 050.2861 284.3722 0161745 156.9032 349.0857 14.86611485839859
Epoch (UTC): 24 May 2013 22:24:30
Eccentricity: 0.0161745
inclination: 50.2861°
perigee height: 495 km
apogee height: 721 km
right ascension of ascending node: 284.3722°
argument of perigee: 156.9032°
revolutions per day: 14.86611485
mean anomaly at epoch: 349.0857°
orbit number at epoch: 83985

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

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