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   13142.85105921  .00004149  00000-0  38966-3 0  6146
2 00022 050.2858 294.0152 0161833 149.0711 003.3659 14.86590690839545
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 20:25:31
Eccentricity: 0.0161833
inclination: 50.2858°
perigee height: 495 km
apogee height: 721 km
right ascension of ascending node: 294.0152°
argument of perigee: 149.0711°
revolutions per day: 14.86590690
mean anomaly at epoch: 3.3659°
orbit number at epoch: 83954

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

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