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   13140.18473892  .00001831  00000-0  99852-3 0  8851
2 00011 032.8691 032.4955 1475426 070.8115 304.5975 11.83739911309965
Epoch (UTC): 20 May 2013 04:26:01
Eccentricity: 0.1475426
inclination: 32.8691°
perigee height: 554 km
apogee height: 2954 km
right ascension of ascending node: 32.4955°
argument of perigee: 70.8115°
revolutions per day: 11.83739911
mean anomaly at epoch: 304.5975°
orbit number at epoch: 30996

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

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