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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   23344.35901297  .00000541  00000-0  26602-3 0  9998
2 00011  32.8780 319.5178 1460332 232.5989 113.2670 11.87427793425935
Epoch (UTC): 10 December 2023 08:36:58
Eccentricity: 0.1460332
inclination: 32.8780°
perigee height: 552 km
apogee height: 2923 km
right ascension of ascending node: 319.5178°
argument of perigee: 232.5989°
revolutions per day: 11.87427793
mean anomaly at epoch: 113.2670°
orbit number at epoch: 42593

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

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