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   13140.10787768  .00000503  00000-0  28566-3 0  5940
2 00012 032.9070 029.0256 1675684 174.7146 187.3794 11.42500260226467
Epoch (UTC): 20 May 2013 02:35:20
Eccentricity: 0.1675684
inclination: 32.9070°
perigee height: 553 km
apogee height: 3344 km
right ascension of ascending node: 29.0256°
argument of perigee: 174.7146°
revolutions per day: 11.42500260
mean anomaly at epoch: 187.3794°
orbit number at epoch: 22646

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

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