Tiros 1 - 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 00029U 60002B   13140.78403783  .00000344  00000-0  84917-4 0  9240
2 00029 048.3796 257.4159 0024652 341.1070 018.8925 14.72629738837390
Epoch (UTC): 20 May 2013 18:49:00
Eccentricity: 0.0024652
inclination: 48.3796°
perigee height: 635 km
apogee height: 670 km
right ascension of ascending node: 257.4159°
argument of perigee: 341.1070°
revolutions per day: 14.72629738
mean anomaly at epoch: 18.8925°
orbit number at epoch: 83739

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

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