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Vanguard 1 Rocket - 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 00016U 58002A   24357.55095170  .00000284  00000-0  39833-3 0  9998
2 00016  34.2677  71.4706 2023320 353.2096   4.4535 10.49511559632005
Epoch (UTC): 22 December 2024 13:13:22
Eccentricity: 0.2023320
inclination: 34.2677°
perigee height: 651 km
apogee height: 4217 km
right ascension of ascending node: 71.4706°
argument of perigee: 353.2096°
revolutions per day: 10.49511559
mean anomaly at epoch: 4.4535°
orbit number at epoch: 63200

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

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