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   13137.52062569  .00004764  00000-0  44409-3 0  6090
2 00022 050.2861 318.6956 0161990 128.9623 276.9905 14.86528399838757
Epoch (UTC): 17 May 2013 12:29:42
Eccentricity: 0.0161990
inclination: 50.2861°
perigee height: 495 km
apogee height: 722 km
right ascension of ascending node: 318.6956°
argument of perigee: 128.9623°
revolutions per day: 14.86528399
mean anomaly at epoch: 276.9905°
orbit number at epoch: 83875

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

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