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Vanguard 2 - 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 00011U 59001A   23275.81240994  .00000613  00000-0  30603-3 0  9998
2 00011  32.8705 217.6190 1461433 204.5599 147.7934 11.87322991417786
Epoch (UTC): 02 October 2023 19:29:52
Eccentricity: 0.1461433
inclination: 32.8705°
perigee height: 552 km
apogee height: 2924 km
right ascension of ascending node: 217.6190°
argument of perigee: 204.5599°
revolutions per day: 11.87322991
mean anomaly at epoch: 147.7934°
orbit number at epoch: 41778

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

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