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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   23340.40725610  .00000856  00000-0  43546-3 0  9998
2 00011  32.8753 334.3962 1460263 210.2293 140.5541 11.87423321425466
Epoch (UTC): 06 December 2023 09:46:26
Eccentricity: 0.1460263
inclination: 32.8753°
perigee height: 552 km
apogee height: 2923 km
right ascension of ascending node: 334.3962°
argument of perigee: 210.2293°
revolutions per day: 11.87423321
mean anomaly at epoch: 140.5541°
orbit number at epoch: 42546

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

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