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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   23342.34102916  .00000573  00000-0  28385-3 0  9991
2 00011  32.8767 327.1152 1460306 221.1768 126.9133 11.87425349425690
Epoch (UTC): 08 December 2023 08:11:04
Eccentricity: 0.1460306
inclination: 32.8767°
perigee height: 552 km
apogee height: 2923 km
right ascension of ascending node: 327.1152°
argument of perigee: 221.1768°
revolutions per day: 11.87425349
mean anomaly at epoch: 126.9133°
orbit number at epoch: 42569

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

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