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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   24315.00810551  .00000645  00000-0  87845-3 0  9997
2 00016  34.2607 194.4870 2023336 173.6019 189.5128 10.49481018627533
Epoch (UTC): 10 November 2024 00:11:40
Eccentricity: 0.2023336
inclination: 34.2607°
perigee height: 651 km
apogee height: 4217 km
right ascension of ascending node: 194.4870°
argument of perigee: 173.6019°
revolutions per day: 10.49481018
mean anomaly at epoch: 189.5128°
orbit number at epoch: 62753

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

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