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Vanguard 2 Rocket - 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 00012U 59001B   23263.89398322  .00000756  00000-0  42387-3 0  9993
2 00012  32.9050 143.1513 1659752 218.8274 128.0751 11.45788524416414
Epoch (UTC): 20 September 2023 21:27:20
Eccentricity: 0.1659752
inclination: 32.9050°
perigee height: 553 km
apogee height: 3312 km
right ascension of ascending node: 143.1513°
argument of perigee: 218.8274°
revolutions per day: 11.45788524
mean anomaly at epoch: 128.0751°
orbit number at epoch: 41641

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

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