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(37.7514°N, 90.2201°W)
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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   24316.30493617  .00001000  00000-0  12770-2 0  9999
2 00005  34.2482 313.3771 1842739  30.4510 339.1234 10.85777768379912
Epoch (UTC): 11 November 2024 07:19:06
Eccentricity: 0.1842739
inclination: 34.2482°
perigee height: 649 km
apogee height: 3824 km
right ascension of ascending node: 313.3771°
argument of perigee: 30.4510°
revolutions per day: 10.85777768
mean anomaly at epoch: 339.1234°
orbit number at epoch: 37991

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

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