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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   24261.29054559  .00002063  00000-0  25990-2 0  9992
2     5  34.2429 123.1269 1843139 142.5359 231.9187 10.85646277374037
Epoch (UTC): 17 September 2024 06:58:23
Eccentricity: 0.1843139
inclination: 34.2429°
perigee height: 649 km
apogee height: 3825 km
right ascension of ascending node: 123.1269°
argument of perigee: 142.5359°
revolutions per day: 10.85646277
mean anomaly at epoch: 231.9187°
orbit number at epoch: 37403

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

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