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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   25140.34378645  .00001689  00000-0  88639-3 0  9990
2 00011  32.8674 131.2246 1448487 342.3531  13.1397 11.89781429488655
Epoch (UTC): 20 May 2025 08:15:03
Eccentricity: 0.1448487
inclination: 32.8674°
perigee height: 553 km
apogee height: 2901 km
right ascension of ascending node: 131.2246°
argument of perigee: 342.3531°
revolutions per day: 11.89781429
mean anomaly at epoch: 13.1397°
orbit number at epoch: 48865

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

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