Vanguard 2 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 00012U 59001B   13144.03970000  .00000509  00000-0  28459-3 0  5979
2 00012 032.9108 015.3109 1675810 195.3255 158.9830 11.42504004226910
Epoch (UTC): 24 May 2013 00:57:10
Eccentricity: 0.1675810
inclination: 32.9108°
perigee height: 553 km
apogee height: 3344 km
right ascension of ascending node: 15.3109°
argument of perigee: 195.3255°
revolutions per day: 11.42504004
mean anomaly at epoch: 158.9830°
orbit number at epoch: 22691

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

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