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   13144.82524390  .00001841  00000-0  10007-2 0  8895
2 00011 032.8690 015.1329 1475603 096.9204 280.0902 11.83757684310510
Epoch (UTC): 24 May 2013 19:48:21
Eccentricity: 0.1475603
inclination: 32.8690°
perigee height: 554 km
apogee height: 2954 km
right ascension of ascending node: 15.1329°
argument of perigee: 96.9204°
revolutions per day: 11.83757684
mean anomaly at epoch: 280.0902°
orbit number at epoch: 31051

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

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