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Vanguard 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 00005U 58002B   24311.33547778  .00001260  00000-0  15931-2 0  9995
2 00005  34.2515 328.7181 1843011   8.0409 354.5916 10.85767134379370
Epoch (UTC): 06 November 2024 08:03:05
Eccentricity: 0.1843011
inclination: 34.2515°
perigee height: 649 km
apogee height: 3824 km
right ascension of ascending node: 328.7181°
argument of perigee: 8.0409°
revolutions per day: 10.85767134
mean anomaly at epoch: 354.5916°
orbit number at epoch: 37937

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

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