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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   24255.40363772  .00001625  00000-0  20580-2 0  9991
2 00005  34.2431 141.2923 1843319 116.0069 264.1639 10.85627216373291
Epoch (UTC): 11 September 2024 09:41:14
Eccentricity: 0.1843319
inclination: 34.2431°
perigee height: 649 km
apogee height: 3825 km
right ascension of ascending node: 141.2923°
argument of perigee: 116.0069°
revolutions per day: 10.85627216
mean anomaly at epoch: 264.1639°
orbit number at epoch: 37329

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

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