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   13138.52822286  .00006396  00000-0  58711-3 0  6107
2 00022 050.2858 314.0307 0161934 132.7573 269.1668 14.86536597838904
Epoch (UTC): 18 May 2013 12:40:38
Eccentricity: 0.0161934
inclination: 50.2858°
perigee height: 495 km
apogee height: 722 km
right ascension of ascending node: 314.0307°
argument of perigee: 132.7573°
revolutions per day: 14.86536597
mean anomaly at epoch: 269.1668°
orbit number at epoch: 83890

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

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