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   13143.76949645  .00000357  00000-0  86962-4 0  9261
2 00029 048.3790 243.3653 0024521 353.7602 006.3000 14.72633045837833
Epoch (UTC): 23 May 2013 18:28:04
Eccentricity: 0.0024521
inclination: 48.3790°
perigee height: 635 km
apogee height: 670 km
right ascension of ascending node: 243.3653°
argument of perigee: 353.7602°
revolutions per day: 14.72633045
mean anomaly at epoch: 6.3000°
orbit number at epoch: 83783

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

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