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Vanguard 1 Rocket - 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 00016U 58002A   23339.66663251  .00000584  00000-0  81656-3 0  9993
2 00016  34.2618  98.1696 2020607 177.2225 184.1753 10.48990488591785
Epoch (UTC): 05 December 2023 15:59:57
Eccentricity: 0.2020607
inclination: 34.2618°
perigee height: 655 km
apogee height: 4218 km
right ascension of ascending node: 98.1696°
argument of perigee: 177.2225°
revolutions per day: 10.48990488
mean anomaly at epoch: 184.1753°
orbit number at epoch: 59178

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

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