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   13139.49486029  .00000392  00000-0  92405-4 0  9233
2 00029 048.3799 263.4830 0024708 335.7446 024.2300 14.72628254837204
Epoch (UTC): 19 May 2013 11:52:35
Eccentricity: 0.0024708
inclination: 48.3799°
perigee height: 635 km
apogee height: 670 km
right ascension of ascending node: 263.4830°
argument of perigee: 335.7446°
revolutions per day: 14.72628254
mean anomaly at epoch: 24.2300°
orbit number at epoch: 83720

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

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