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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   23084.16015329  .00000199  00000-0  22641-3 0  9991
2 00005  34.2589 354.2815 1846661 221.2619 123.2893 10.85074623315037
Epoch (UTC): 25 March 2023 03:50:37
Eccentricity: 0.1846661
inclination: 34.2589°
perigee height: 649 km
apogee height: 3832 km
right ascension of ascending node: 354.2815°
argument of perigee: 221.2619°
revolutions per day: 10.85074623
mean anomaly at epoch: 123.2893°
orbit number at epoch: 31503

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

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