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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   25315.56554410  .00000098  00000-0  97450-4 0  9992
2 00005  34.2573 265.9539 1842037 237.2912 103.6735 10.85926272419620
Epoch (UTC): 11 November 2025 13:34:23
Eccentricity: 0.1842037
inclination: 34.2573°
perigee height: 649 km
apogee height: 3822 km
right ascension of ascending node: 265.9539°
argument of perigee: 237.2912°
revolutions per day: 10.85926272
mean anomaly at epoch: 103.6735°
orbit number at epoch: 41962

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

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