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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   24357.60320006  .00000410  00000-0  49256-3 0  9992
2 00005  34.2487 185.9078 1842632 216.6665 129.2724 10.85820623384402
Epoch (UTC): 22 December 2024 14:28:36
Eccentricity: 0.1842632
inclination: 34.2487°
perigee height: 649 km
apogee height: 3823 km
right ascension of ascending node: 185.9078°
argument of perigee: 216.6665°
revolutions per day: 10.85820623
mean anomaly at epoch: 129.2724°
orbit number at epoch: 38440

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

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