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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   23089.03782561  .00000151  00000-0  16406-3 0  9991
2     5  34.2620 339.2527 1846928 243.2130  96.8045 10.85076028315657
Epoch (UTC): 30 March 2023 00:54:28
Eccentricity: 0.1846928
inclination: 34.2620°
perigee height: 648 km
apogee height: 3832 km
right ascension of ascending node: 339.2527°
argument of perigee: 243.2130°
revolutions per day: 10.85076028
mean anomaly at epoch: 96.8045°
orbit number at epoch: 31565

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

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