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   13169.18979633  .00000834  00000-0  98666-4 0  6365
2 00022 050.2856 172.0575 0161368 248.3828 209.7412 14.86737899843461
Epoch (UTC): 18 June 2013 04:33:18
Eccentricity: 0.0161368
inclination: 50.2856°
perigee height: 495 km
apogee height: 721 km
right ascension of ascending node: 172.0575°
argument of perigee: 248.3828°
revolutions per day: 14.86737899
mean anomaly at epoch: 209.7412°
orbit number at epoch: 84346

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

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