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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   24314.09631426  .00001123  00000-0  14272-2 0  9990
2     5  34.2485 320.1943 1842784  20.4940 346.0746 10.85773274379775
Epoch (UTC): 09 November 2024 02:18:41
Eccentricity: 0.1842784
inclination: 34.2485°
perigee height: 649 km
apogee height: 3824 km
right ascension of ascending node: 320.1943°
argument of perigee: 20.4940°
revolutions per day: 10.85773274
mean anomaly at epoch: 346.0746°
orbit number at epoch: 37977

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

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