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   13140.83275510  .00005462  00000-0  50494-3 0  6121
2 00022 050.2856 303.3607 0161846 141.4415 002.0785 14.86566881839241
Epoch (UTC): 20 May 2013 19:59:10
Eccentricity: 0.0161846
inclination: 50.2856°
perigee height: 495 km
apogee height: 722 km
right ascension of ascending node: 303.3607°
argument of perigee: 141.4415°
revolutions per day: 14.86566881
mean anomaly at epoch: 2.0785°
orbit number at epoch: 83924

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

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