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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   23080.48182127  .00003603  00000-0  19103-2 0  9991
2 00011  32.8664 232.8581 1462118 179.0775 181.2992 11.86815617394564
Epoch (UTC): 21 March 2023 11:33:49
Eccentricity: 0.1462118
inclination: 32.8664°
perigee height: 553 km
apogee height: 2927 km
right ascension of ascending node: 232.8581°
argument of perigee: 179.0775°
revolutions per day: 11.86815617
mean anomaly at epoch: 181.2992°
orbit number at epoch: 39456

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

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