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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   23341.16978469  .00000296  00000-0  36262-3 0  9992
2 00005  34.2579 282.1504 1842730 298.2933  44.3888 10.85129027342953
Epoch (UTC): 07 December 2023 04:04:29
Eccentricity: 0.1842730
inclination: 34.2579°
perigee height: 652 km
apogee height: 3828 km
right ascension of ascending node: 282.1504°
argument of perigee: 298.2933°
revolutions per day: 10.85129027
mean anomaly at epoch: 44.3888°
orbit number at epoch: 34295

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

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