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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   24281.19938572  .00002070  00000-0  10866-2 0  9990
2    11  32.8656 261.5413 1453922 143.7621 227.0850 11.88787301803588
Epoch (UTC): 07 October 2024 04:47:06
Eccentricity: 0.1453922
inclination: 32.8656°
perigee height: 552 km
apogee height: 2910 km
right ascension of ascending node: 261.5413°
argument of perigee: 143.7621°
revolutions per day: 11.88787301
mean anomaly at epoch: 227.0850°
orbit number at epoch: 80358

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

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