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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   25347.68763760  .00000007  00000-0  37315-4 0  9996
2 00016  34.2595 121.4613 2022703  57.2340 320.7244 10.49576996669427
Epoch (UTC): 13 December 2025 16:30:11
Eccentricity: 0.2022703
inclination: 34.2595°
perigee height: 651 km
apogee height: 4216 km
right ascension of ascending node: 121.4613°
argument of perigee: 57.2340°
revolutions per day: 10.49576996
mean anomaly at epoch: 320.7244°
orbit number at epoch: 66942

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

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