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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     5U 58002B   23342.91914036  .00000256  00000-0  31485-3 0  9994
2     5  34.2564 276.7604 1842679 306.1649  38.1895 10.85129860343238
Epoch (UTC): 08 December 2023 22:03:33
Eccentricity: 0.1842679
inclination: 34.2564°
perigee height: 652 km
apogee height: 3828 km
right ascension of ascending node: 276.7604°
argument of perigee: 306.1649°
revolutions per day: 10.85129860
mean anomaly at epoch: 38.1895°
orbit number at epoch: 34323

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

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