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   13143.81284167  .00001674  00000-0  91100-3 0  8885
2 00011 032.8691 018.9214 1475590 091.2218 285.7197 11.83753662310399
Epoch (UTC): 23 May 2013 19:30:29
Eccentricity: 0.1475590
inclination: 32.8691°
perigee height: 554 km
apogee height: 2954 km
right ascension of ascending node: 18.9214°
argument of perigee: 91.2218°
revolutions per day: 11.83753662
mean anomaly at epoch: 285.7197°
orbit number at epoch: 31039

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

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