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   13145.46577692  .00000281  00000-0  75193-4 0  9270
2 00029 048.3787 235.3821 0024453 001.0888 359.0073 14.72635605838080
Epoch (UTC): 25 May 2013 11:10:43
Eccentricity: 0.0024453
inclination: 48.3787°
perigee height: 635 km
apogee height: 670 km
right ascension of ascending node: 235.3821°
argument of perigee: 1.0888°
revolutions per day: 14.72635605
mean anomaly at epoch: 359.0073°
orbit number at epoch: 83808

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

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