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   13169.07777450  .00000111  00000-0  49037-4 0  9468
2 00029 048.3795 124.2503 0024303 103.7180 256.6439 14.72654057841568
Epoch (UTC): 18 June 2013 01:51:59
Eccentricity: 0.0024303
inclination: 48.3795°
perigee height: 635 km
apogee height: 669 km
right ascension of ascending node: 124.2503°
argument of perigee: 103.7180°
revolutions per day: 14.72654057
mean anomaly at epoch: 256.6439°
orbit number at epoch: 84156

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

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