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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   24280.35956407  .00002025  00000-0  10639-2 0  9992
2 00011  32.8656 264.7115 1453951 138.9940 232.9611 11.88783836461741
Epoch (UTC): 06 October 2024 08:37:46
Eccentricity: 0.1453951
inclination: 32.8656°
perigee height: 552 km
apogee height: 2910 km
right ascension of ascending node: 264.7115°
argument of perigee: 138.9940°
revolutions per day: 11.88783836
mean anomaly at epoch: 232.9611°
orbit number at epoch: 46174

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

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