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   13137.86642308  .00000450  00000-0  10134-3 0  9228
2 00029 048.3800 271.1468 0024765 328.7789 031.1650 14.72624995836960
Epoch (UTC): 17 May 2013 20:47:38
Eccentricity: 0.0024765
inclination: 48.3800°
perigee height: 635 km
apogee height: 670 km
right ascension of ascending node: 271.1468°
argument of perigee: 328.7789°
revolutions per day: 14.72624995
mean anomaly at epoch: 31.1650°
orbit number at epoch: 83696

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

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