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   13168.77702566  .00000668  00000-0  33820-3 0  9119
2 00011 032.8796 285.4975 1476794 231.6958 114.1530 11.83816303313355
Epoch (UTC): 17 June 2013 18:38:55
Eccentricity: 0.1476794
inclination: 32.8796°
perigee height: 553 km
apogee height: 2955 km
right ascension of ascending node: 285.4975°
argument of perigee: 231.6958°
revolutions per day: 11.83816303
mean anomaly at epoch: 114.1530°
orbit number at epoch: 31335

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

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