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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    11U 59001A   24263.55726059  .00001466  00000-0  77857-3 0  9997
2    11  32.8682 328.1282 1454021  43.6337 327.0452 11.88736900801489
Epoch (UTC): 19 September 2024 13:22:27
Eccentricity: 0.1454021
inclination: 32.8682°
perigee height: 552 km
apogee height: 2911 km
right ascension of ascending node: 328.1282°
argument of perigee: 43.6337°
revolutions per day: 11.88736900
mean anomaly at epoch: 327.0452°
orbit number at epoch: 80148

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

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