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   13141.80180854  .00000291  00000-0  76730-4 0  9251
2 00029 048.3795 252.6260 0024604 345.4400 014.5799 14.72630796837545
Epoch (UTC): 21 May 2013 19:14:36
Eccentricity: 0.0024604
inclination: 48.3795°
perigee height: 635 km
apogee height: 670 km
right ascension of ascending node: 252.6260°
argument of perigee: 345.4400°
revolutions per day: 14.72630796
mean anomaly at epoch: 14.5799°
orbit number at epoch: 83754

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

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