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   13142.81645615  .00000419  00000-0  23271-3 0  5960
2 00012 032.9096 019.5777 1675765 188.9139 167.7688 11.42502500226773
Epoch (UTC): 22 May 2013 19:35:41
Eccentricity: 0.1675765
inclination: 32.9096°
perigee height: 553 km
apogee height: 3344 km
right ascension of ascending node: 19.5777°
argument of perigee: 188.9139°
revolutions per day: 11.42502500
mean anomaly at epoch: 167.7688°
orbit number at epoch: 22677

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

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